Edexcel Btec-otherwise known as Pearsons. How is it commonly taught, if not necessarily the way Edexcel wishes?

Usually it has three or four learning outcomes displayed for lecturer and student alike. These are broken down into three or four sub-headings or learning outcomes. So, for example, LO1 might be broken into LO1.1, LO1.2, LO1.3. These can be further broken down into articulated outcomes. In this way the process can be seen as mechanistic.

A teacher, although this is not the required fashion, can then teach each learning outcome bit by bit. Unfortunately, this creates trouble when the student is required to do the end of course examined tasks that determine how much the student has learnt. Assignments, provided as one of the tasks, are always reflective thereby contradicting the teaching. Students will then write it as they've been taught. For example:

LO1.1-as a question not a guideline.
Followed by answer.

LO1.2-as a question

Followed by answer.

In fact LO1 says -"Assess-

LO2 says-"Analyse


LO3 says-"Evaluate-

Accordingly the student does none of these things and must, if marked properly, fail.