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Towards high quality in Australian educational technology (2024)

Edtech decision makers currently select and implement technologies with almost no information about what is likely to work in their schools. This report argues for a national quality assurance process for edtech, with clear criteria and robust and transparent assessment process.

Webinar Recording: TAE PD Week - Unpacking Training Packages to Meet Client Needs

Recorded on 2/12/2020 and forming part of the TAE PD Week, this webinar took a practical look at how to unpack a training package into the sum of its parts and sought to demystify how to use them to develop training and assessment tools and resources that meet industry and client need.

Webinar Recording: LLN Testing - Keeping it simple and getting it right

Recorded on 24/10/2019 as part of National VET PD Week, this webinar explored LLN testing and how the ACSF provides a structure for the identification of LLN needs, and to contextualise learning and assessment materials to ensure underpinning competencies are demonstrated.

WEBINAR: Reasonable Adjustment and Inclusive Practice (2022)

Training Accreditation Council (TAC) webinar which aims to assist RTO trainers, assessors and managers to understand reasonable adjustment in teaching, learning and assessment, relevant legislation and regulation, reasonable adjustment throughout the learner's journey with an RTO, maintaining integrity of outcome standards and keeping records of reasonable adjustment processes.

Webinar Recording: A Guide to Marking Guides!

Recorded on the 14/10/2020, this 90-minute, highly interactive session, streams our VET Expert (John Dwyer) directly to you! Unpack the most critical components of marking guides and their importance as part of an assessment tool in this session.

ACER: Public Enquiry: Adult literacy and its importance (2021)

The Australian Council for Educational Research’s submission to the Australian Government Standing Committee on Employment, Education and Training's Public Enquiry into Adult literacy and its importance highlights the importance of these skills to Australia’s well-being and economy, and calls on the government to continue participation in an international assessment to monitor outcomes and improve adult education.

TAC WEBINAR: Creating a Child Safe Organisation (2024)

The Training Accreditation Council (Council) has developed this webinar, in collaboration with Child Safety specialists, WA Council of Social Services, WACOSS, to address key topics under the Governance Quality Area of Risk Management 4.3(d). This webinar is highly recommended for RTOs registered with the Council that offer training and/or assessment to learners aged under the age of 18 (particularly young persons aged 14-17).

Assessment Tools

An ‘assessment tool’ means the instrument, instructions and methods used to gather and interpret assessment evidence for the purposes of determining VET student competency

Assessment Systems

An assessment system encompasses the policies, procedures, and tools used to gather and interpret evidence of a student's skills and knowledge.

Pre-Use Assessment Tool Review

Assessment tools must be reviewed prior to use to ensure assessment can be conducted in a way that is consistent with the principles of assessment and rules of evidence.

Training and Assessment Strategies (TAS)

A TAS is a framework that identifies the structure for the way in which a training product is delivered to learners and the way assessment will occur.

Assessment - Standards 1.3, 1.4 and 1.5

Standards 1.3, 1.4 and 1.5 relate to the focus area of assessment.

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