TAESS00011 Assessor Skill Set

To complete the course you will be required to undertake a range of projects and practical tasks, observations, written activities and interviews. We’ll work with you to help you develop the knowledge and skills to be successful, as well as give you a broad toolkit of templates and examples to work from.

Major assessment activities include:

Planning, designing and developing assessment tools, and validating them

Here you develop five plans for how you would assess five different units of competency, then choose three of these for which you will develop a full set of assessment tools. This typically includes things like developing test questions, observation checklists and assignments or projects for your students. You’ll then review the three tools thoroughly by sitting down with at least one other person and participating in what’s called an assessment validation.

While it’s quite a detailed and involved part of the course, it’s an extremely important skill-set for any VET trainer and assessor to have.

Assessing competency

This is about being an assessor. You will discover that assessment is so much more than just marking exams. You will learn how being a qualified assessor is an important and powerful responsibility to hold. To achieve this qualification you need to assess five people against a nationally recognised unit of competency. If you’re not doing this as part of a face to face course you’ll need to do the assessments under supervision of someone who already holds the TAE40116 qualification. If required, an Accellier facilitator can be this supervisor.

There are two sections we want you to read, understand and be comfortable with before enrolling with us:

1. The Important Enrolment Information section – a combination of a client handbook and general terms and conditions which apply to all courses.
2. The information below which includes entry requirements specific to this course.

To enrol into a Training and Assessment qualification with Accellier you must:

• Have a good English language and literacy skills sufficient to undertake study at Certificate IV level.
• Have access to a training organisation to practice your skills and be assessed in.
• Be able to demonstrate vocational competency in your proposed teaching and assessing area (Vocational competency is defined as broad industry knowledge and experience, e.g., having industry experience or holding a relevant qualification).
• Have access to a suitably experienced 3^rd party person who can assist us with making our assessment decisions where required (e.g., you have the support of a manager or supervisor to do the course).
• Have some basic computer skills – most importantly, the ability organise and manage your files and documents, edit documents, research information on the internet, install and use apps, record video on your phone/iPad or similar.
• Have regular access to a computer with a reliable broadband Internet connection (there is a lot of video and audio material in the course, so having a good download speed and allowance is recommended)
• Be capable of self-motivation, time management and creative problem solving.
• Have a positive attitude and willingness to learn – you understand that learning anything worthwhile can be a challenge and you’re ready for that challenge.
• Bring a laptop if completing face-to-face training.

Your computer or laptop (this is just a rough guide) should be reasonably modern and you should have an up to date web browser such as Firefox or Google Chrome. It will need to have a word-processing application such as Microsoft Word or access to Google Docs. Generally speaking if you can see and hear YouTube-style videos then you’ll be able to take full advantage of our resources.