NVPDW: Designing Compliant Simulations in Assessment Tools

This webinar is one of ten available during National VET PD Week - a joint venture between Velg Training and Independent Tertiary Education Council Australia. This webinar is being hosted by Velg Training.

About this webinar

Registered Training Organisations are under increasing scrutiny by ASQA. Clause 1.8 (assessment complies with the training package and is conducted using the principles of assessment and the rules of evidence), continues to be a focus of their concern.  The National Regulator comments that a majority of RTOs’ assessment tools are providing limited assessment of candidate skills because:

• Simulations don’t cover performance criteria
• There is improper (or no) implementation of knowledge and performance evidence, and foundation skills
• Assessment conditions (e.g. organisational policies and procedures) are not used in the assessment

The failure of assessment tools is not surprising because most are written for a training room and not the workplace. However, in competency-based assessment, when an individual is deemed competent, this means they can perform that task in the workplace. In other words, they are job ready.

This creates a problem, as a unit of competence will more than likely include actions such as:

• Consult stakeholders…
• Implement plan….
• Monitor business activities….
• Use organisational policies and procedures…

These actions where you consult, implement, monitor, use etc. are not easy to replicate in a training room environment! For example, how do you monitor the success of your operational plan in the training room?

Yet, creating a simulation to mirror the real world, though a challenge, is essential if you want to achieve compliance. In this session, attendees will be shown how they can create a workplace within your assessment tool that will address the principles of assessment and rules of evidence, using difficult units that Mark has come across.

Mark will provide examples that will satisfy the most discerning auditor!

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Date & Time

25 October 2019
11:00am - 12:00pm (AEST: QLD)

Other timezones:
12:00pm - 1:00pm  (AEDT: NSW, ACT, VIC, TAS)
11:30am - 12:30pm (ACDT: SA)
10:30am - 11:30am (ACST:NT)
9:00am - 10:00am (AWST: WA)

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