NVR and ASQA

What the USI will mean for Registered Training Organisations, or RTOs.

The below is a transcript from InnovationGovau video about the forthcoming USI; I felt it was worthwhile reading and wanted to share.  Once the USI scheme is in place, an RTO, with the student’s permission will be able to see that student’s entire VET records since 2014, online. This will make it easier to assess

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RTO Compliance tip – formative and summative assessment

RTO compliance is about understanding of your assessment processes. A client and I were having a discussion the other day about formative and summative assessment. The discussion came about when they were reviewing the training of a particular course, and looking at ways to establish benchmarks in their training, to see how the students were

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RTO Compliance tip – Clustering units of competency

I was working with a client the other day and we were working through writing assessments. We were at the planning stages for an updated Training Package so were reviewing the work tasks that occurred that could incorporate one, two or maybe three different units of competency. We found that there was some tasks that

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Compliance Tips for your RTO – tip 3

Tip 3. Make your policies real; if you say you do it, then make sure you do, otherwise remove the superfluous information. Read your policies and check that is actually what happens in the RTO. if it isn’t then change your policy to reflect what really happens. Remember they are the backbone of your business,

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Developing assessment tools

Assessment tools are a collection of instruments that build up a picture of someone competence. The instruments are the individual pieces,  the specific questions or activity used to assess competence by the assessment method selected. Different RTOs develop Assessment tools in their own way; some having all the questions and observable behaviours on one document;

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