QUALITY ASSESSMENT PRACTICES

1. QUALITY ASSESSMENT PRACTICES

2. What does competence look like?

3. What does competence look like? • Need for planning • Start from final outcome • Address dimensions of competency • Determined by the job role: • Task skills • Task management skills • Contingency skills • Job/role environment skills • Transfer skills • Safe working skills • LLN skills

4. What does competence look like? What do I need evidence of?

5. What do I need evidence of as opposed to what evidence do I need? • Real, ‘realistic’, simulated environments • Content • Face (Industry read) • Construct

6. What does competence look like? How do I get it? What do I need evidence of?

7. How do I get it? • Methods/ instruments – consider the range of ways i.e. PLAN – an assessment plan! • Interview, questions and answers, etc – structured, effective, efficient • Method needs to be chosen to address benchmark criteria • Develop assessment record – address flexibility, fairness, reasonable adjustment (use predictive skills).

8. What does competence look like? How do I get it? What do I need evidence of? What are the benchmarks?

9. Benchmarks • Expected responses at AQF level – consider Bloom’s Taxonomy • Decision making rules – defining what constitutes a satisfactory response and how to deal with incomplete responses • Observation checklists – do all 10 points have to be addressed? • What procedure will I follow if insufficient information is offered? • What context would require repeating the assessment? • Intra-rater/inter-rater reliability • Fairness

10. What does competence look like? How do I get it? What do I need evidence of? Detailed mapping document What are the benchmarks?

11. Mapping document • Mapping of assessment against unit requirements – you can teach beyond the requirements of units, but you can’t assess beyond the requirements of the unit • Elements/performance criteria • Knowledge • Skills • Critical aspects of evidence • Content validity • Fairness

12. What does competence look like? How do I get it? What do I need evidence of? Detailed mapping document What are the benchmarks? Recording and reporting documentation

13. Recording and Reporting Documentation • Summary report • Assessor signoff • Feedback to and from learning – what does this look like? What does it mean? • Are organisational requirements met?

14. What does competence look like? How do I get it? What do I need evidence of? Quality Assessment Practices Detailed mapping document What are the benchmarks? Recording and reporting documentation

15. Links • Are the links between the assessment planning process and the actual assessment processes and instruments clear?