Trainers, Assessors or Talent Development Professionals?
How did we get here? And how are we preparing ourselves to deal with current and future challenges? Trainers have used the concept of competency-based vocational education since the 1800s. “As man invented tools, weapons, clothing, shelter and language, the...
Collecting relevant assessment evidence
Don’t tick the wrong box! Assessment systems continue to be the most challenging area in an RTO’s operations and yet the most critical to demonstrate quality outcomes. When dealing with assessments in Australia’s VET environment, we need to consider both the assessment...
VET Assessment Practices Summit 2016 Report
Insources’ first VET Assessment Practices Summit held on 28 and 29 April was an outstanding success. The event attracted more than 100 private training organisations, resource developers, professional bodies, not-for-profit organisations, enterprise RTOs, public training providers, service skills organisations, universities...
Updating Assessment Systems
In order to assess (measure) something, we need to know what we want to measure and how to measure it. How do we measure learning? How do we measure competency? I would like to define learning as “changes in behaviour...
Conducting Validations
The Standards for RTOs 2015 set the requirements and benchmarks for RTO’s Assessment Practices. All RTOs must develop and implement a system to ensure: Assessment judgements are sound and consistent Assessment judgements are validated. An assessment system includes not only...