EPA

EPA stands for end-point assessment and is the final step in completing the apprenticeship

To complete your apprenticeship, you’ll be assessed in two ways:

  • Project (“Work-based project with questioning”)
  • Portfolio (“Professional discussion underpinned by portfolio”)

To begin EPA, you must get through the Gateway

Gateway is a 2-week period where BCS will approve or deny your project start

To enter gateway you must submit:

  • a final project proposal
  • your completed portfolio
  • Evidence of Level 2 English
  • Evidence of Level 2 Maths
  • Sign-off from your employer

Founders and Coders will support you throughout the lead up and during EPA

Each term, we’ll be available for regular check-ins and portfolio feedback

We’ll also hold ‘tripartite reviews’ between you, your employer, and us

You can enter Gateway 12 months after starting the apprenticeship

Portfolio

Your portfolio is not directly assessed.

It is used as the basis for the “professional discussion”, which determines 50% of your grade.

It’s a collection of documentation which relates to a set of knowledge, skills and behaviours

There is no specific structure for the documentation, but you should cover:

  • What you did
  • How you did it
  • With whom
  • and why you did it that way

Build your portfolio throughout your apprenticeship

Your assessor will be looking to hear what you did, so always use I, me, my and avoid we, us, our.

Put together a narrative of what you did on the project, and use supporting evidence.

Mapping to KSBs comes after documenting, and in a separate document.

Mapping

Put together a separate document with a table which maps your evidence to the KSBs

https://fac-standard.netlify.app/portfolio/ksbs/

Weekly presentations

During the course, we’ll ask you to reflect on the KSBs you’ve met that week

Look through the list of KSBs, your README, and your codebase

In your presentations, include a few examples

e.g.

K8

organisational policies and procedures relating to the tasks being undertaken, and when to follow them. For example, the storage and treatment of GDPR sensitive data

Image showing text from a README - GDPR and T&C need to be in plain and simple language. Specific Auth requirements for minors are out of scope for this project

B4

works collaboratively with a wide range of people in different roles, internally and externally to the team, with a positive attitude to inclusion & diversity.

Image showing text from a README - we broke down tasks into smaller issues and assigned them to pairs or individual people. In that sense we worked effectively. We did not research some things enough (reach.ui) and therefor got stuck with some things. Also we discussed many things over and over again, without acutally researching what the best way to to things would be.

S3

links code to data sets

import PlayGame from '../../components/playgame/PlayGame'
import useSWR from 'swr'

const fetcher = (url) => fetch(url).then((res) => res.json())

export default function PlayGamePage() {
    const { data, error } = useSWR('/api/staticdata', fetcher)

    if (error) return <div>Failed to load</div>
    if (!data) return <div>Loading...</div>
    const games = JSON.parse(data)

    return (
        <Layout pageTitle="Play/Games">
            <div className="container">
                <h1 className="title">Play / Game</h1>
                // ...
            </div>
            {<PlayGame games={games['play-game']} />}
        </Layout>
    )

Final Project

You’ll work on the final project after being approved for Gateway

The project is something real and useful to your employer

Completed within 9 weeks

You will submit a 4,500 word report as part of the assessment

The report, and the subsequent questioning will form your grade

Assessments

The assessments themselves (portfolio and project) are both 60 minute sessions

You’ll be asked a minimum of 12 questions related to the work you’ve done

Questions

Resources