TAESS00019 Assessor Skill Set

This course involves you developing courses structures using nationally recognised training products, assessing students to determine if they are competent against the requirements of units of competency, and participating in the validation of assessments.

Major assessment activities include:

Packaging two qualifications from Training Packages.

You’ll select two current qualifications from Training Packages listed on training.gov.au and plan the structure of core and elective units for a specific target group of learners.

You’ll then seek feedback from an industry professional on your proposed structure and respond to a series of questions about your work and VET in general.

By completing this unit, students develop a strong understanding of the broader structure of Training Packages, VET qualifications, skill sets and units of competency. People who complete this unit often tell us that it helps them finally “make sense” of the VET system, giving them greater confidence to work within its structure.

Assessing Competency

This unit is about the role and responsibility of being an assessor. You’ll discover that assessment is much more than simply marking exams, that it’s a professional judgement process that carries significant responsibility.

To complete this unit, you’ll assess six people against 3 different nationally recognised units of competency. Unless otherwise arranged, we provide the assessment tools, along with case studies and video evidence, so you can make assessment decisions about each student’s competence. On several occasions you will be required to source volunteer students to demonstrate giving feedback and instructions for assessment.

You’ll also work through a range of challenging scenarios where you’ll need to respond to students’ needs for reasonable adjustment, while still maintaining the integrity of the unit requirements.

Throughout the unit, you’ll answer questions that encourage you to reflect deeply on your practice as an assessor, as well as complete rigorous knowledge-based questions about assessment in the VET system.

Validating Assessments

In this unit, you’ll participate in the validation of several assessment tools and assessment judgements.

We’ll provide newly designed assessment tools that contain potential issues and non-compliances. As part of a validation team, you’ll review these tools, identify areas of concern and report on your findings.

You’ll also review assessment evidence that has already been assessed by other assessors. This will involve evaluating the assessor’s performance, identifying what they did well and recognising where improvements are needed.

We run live online workshops every second month so this work can be completed in a realistic, simulated team environment. In some cases, we may also approve you to complete these activities with a qualified assessor in your own organisation.

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.