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Essential information about CPAF 2024

Download the Common Placement Assessment Form (CPAF) 2024, and understand what has changed in the latest version and why.

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What has changed in CPAF 2024?

The original CPAF was evaluated to capture user experience. A working group was formed to review this feedback and recommend next steps. The CSP then worked collaboratively with university, practice education and student representatives across the UK to produce CPAF September 2024.

Some key changes have been made to CPAF following the recommendations from the working party set up to review the form:

  • The marking has been reduced to give 10 marks rather than 30.
  • Learning domain 6 has been reworded to make it easier to understand.
  • There is now just one rubric to mark all learning domains against.
  • The CSP also worked with a learning technologist to make the form more user friendly and reduce repetition.

CPAF guidance for practice educators and learners

Here is the guidance information for CPAF. There is now just one document for both practice educators and learners. 

Use our presentation to update practice educators

You can find out more in our PowerPoint presentation, which we've created for higher education institutions (HEIs) to update practice educators on the changes to CPAF. Please use and edit these slides as you require.

Watch the webinar

To understand more about the changes to learning domain 6, watch the webinar.

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