Guide: Writing Reliable Benchmarks for Assessment Tools

Assessment tools that support assessors to make comparable judgements underpin a strong RTO assessment system.

This information booklet gives guidance on developing benchmarks for your assessment tools so that the Principle of Assessment ‘Reliability’ can be supported.

See examples of:

• How to write benchmarks that give assessors proper guidance
• Options that are commonly used but are examples of “not-so-good” practice

ASQA have pinpointed unreliable assessment judgements as one of the contributing factors to poor quality assessment practices they are seeing three-quarters of the time at audit.

Get this tool to assist in writing assessor guidance that is more likely to be used and contribute to defensible assessment decisions.