There are three key critical aspects of Assessment Validation in Vocational Education and Training and these are:
Assessment is not just about individual assessors going about assessment however they want. If you’re validating processes, you’re focussing more on what happens ‘behind-the-scenes’ of assessment.
The processes are really just the procedures that all the assessors follow. It’s a systematic approach.
The Registered Training Organisation (RTO) will have a range of processes that assessors must follow to conduct quality assessment. Things like:
When validating processes, the validation team is seeking to improve the system that supports the assessments that happen at that RTO.
They might answer questions like:
When we’re validating methods, we’re looking at what we’re getting the student to do to prove they are competent (e.g., observation, project tasks, written tests, verbal Q&A). We’re reviewing these methods to see if they’re the most suitable way to assess that unit.
For example, a validation team might validate the methods used in a very practical, hands-on unit of competency. They might discover that they’re relying far too much on written and theory-based assessment methods. As a result of the validation they might recommend that more practical assessment methods like project tasks and observations be used.
When we say we’re validating products, we’re focussing in on the actual assessment resources, documents, tools and instruments used at that organisation for assessment.
When validating products, the team might seek to answer questions like:
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