The Level 4 Digital Modular Programme has been designed to support learners who might just be starting out in their digital careers, those currently seeking employment or wanting to retrain for new employment opportunities.
It is an occupationally focused qualification that will:
- Enable a learner to develop their knowledge and skill within a particular specialism to help solve business problems.
- Develop an understanding of the wider business environment, working with different stakeholders, and how their role can positively contribute to the success of the organisation.
- Assess their applied knowledge and skills through work-oriented assessment methods.
- Enable a learner to identify a pathway to progress within their career.
Each module is assessed through a digital assessment. A learner should expect to take two exams: one for the Digital Core and one for their chosen occupationally focused module. Each exam will be provided in two parts:
- Part 1 – Knowledge Test – this will focus on testing the learner’s knowledge through a series of questions that will include multiple response, fill the blanks, drag and drop and ordering questions.
- Part 2 – Situational Judgement Assessment – this will focus on testing a learner’s applied knowledge, skills and behaviours to a set of real-world scenarios. Each scenario will include a set of questions and tasks that will challenge the learner to solve a particular business problem through analysis, decision making, and application of techniques specific to their occupationally focused module, for example, practical use of statistical programming languages. The learner will be assessed against the criteria in the Digital Core and their chosen occupationally focused module for the digital assessments.
In order to enable the learner to showcase the specialist skills they have developed while on programme, they will be required to carry out a work-oriented project that will account for 30 hours of their total qualification time. Through the undertaking of this project, the learner will be able to practically demonstrate their ability to solve a particular business problem, providing evidence of their competency within the skills and behaviours defined in the occupational standard e.g. Data Analysis. This project can be carried out in the context of their own workplace or in relation to a given scenario where the learner is not currently working in the role. The learner will be required to present the results of their project within a 3,500 word report. The learner will be assessed against a set of pass and distinction criteria for the project. These criteria have been designed in line with the occupational standard.
This occupation is found in any employer in any sector that uses data to make business decisions. Data analysts may work in various departments within a single employer, (for example finance, sales, HR, manufacturing, or marketing), and in any employment sector, public or private, including retail, distribution, defence, banking, logistics, media, local government etc.
The broad purpose of the occupation is to ascertain how data can be used in order to answer questions and solve problems. Data analysis is a process of requirement-gathering, inspecting, cleansing, transforming and modelling data with the goal of discovering useful information, informing conclusions and supporting decision-making. Data analysis has multiple facets and approaches, encompassing diverse techniques under a variety of names. In today’s world, data analysis plays a crucial role in making decisions more evidence-based and helping organisations operate more effectively.
