The principles of assessment are part of your assessment plan. No matter what assessment pathway or methods you use, the principles of fairness, flexibility, validity and reliability must be met. The evidence used to make a decision about competence must be valid, sufficient, authentic and current. Let’s look at the principles of assessment: Fairness The individual learner’s […]
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The revised standards do look different; however they are essentially very much the same as the current standards being used across Australia (AQTF or NVR standards). Now is the time to review what you have happening within your RTO and make sure you are ready to meet the new compliance. By starting at the bigger
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Current industry skills for your trainers and assessors. To provide training that reflects current industry practice and valid assessment, your RTO’s trainers and assessors must maintain the currency of their skills and knowledge in their industry area and in vocational education and training. It is also acceptable for an appropriately qualified trainer and assessor to work with
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To provide training that reflects current industry practice and valid assessment, your RTO’s trainers and assessors must maintain the currency of their skills and knowledge in their industry area and in vocational education and training. It is also acceptable for an appropriately qualified trainer and assessor to work with an industry expert to conduct assessment together. Your RTO
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Developing Assessment Tools for your RTO is one of the most critical areas. When applying to become an RTO, you must demonstrate that your organisation has developed all required assessment systems and materials for the scope of registration applied for. As no assessment decisions will have been made and the validation activities required by the Standards will not
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As you might know, any RTOs delivering the TAE qualifications need to get their assessment system, tools, processes and outcomes validated independently from 1 January 2016. This means I have been busy, head down validating various RTOs assessments, assessment judgements, systems and processes. The Standards for RTOs state: Clause 1.25 From 1 January 2016, the
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RTO Compliance Tip – Student evidence When considering student evidence, Authenticity MUST be checked. Authenticity means the assessor is assured that the evidence presented for assessment is the learner’s own work. If substantial portions of the evidence submitted are gathered through independent study (e.g. assignments or projects) rather than direct observation, consider using online systems to check work submissions for
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RTO evidence gathering comes in many shapes and forms. The third-party reports in this post is not where you need a contract with someone else. It is as simple as having someone in the workplace gather some of your evidence. When developing assessment evidence within your RTO to be collected it usually falls into three
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Over the past few weeks you may have seen a change to the name of this website and newsletters. It is true we have been moving from F4 Solutions – which didn’t really say what we did, to RTO Mentor. Yes there was a story behind the original name, but the original idea changed so
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So often I talk to clients who have an RTO and they say they are so happy they commenced the business. And they go on to say that they have learnt so much about themselves, their family and their friends along the way. They have often feel they have undertaken a journey of self-discovery! I
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