Course Title: Plan assessment activities and processes

Part A: Course Overview

Program: C4277 Certificate IV in Training and Assessment

Course Title: Plan assessment activities and processes

Portfolio: DSC Portfolio Office

Nominal Hours: 20

Regardless of the mode of delivery, represent a guide to the relative teaching time and student effort required to successfully achieve a particular competency/module. This may include not only scheduled classes or workplace visits but also the amount of effort required to undertake, evaluate and complete all assessment requirements, including any non-classroom activities.

Terms

Course Code	Campus	Career	School	Learning Mode	Teaching Period(s)
TCHE5751C	City Campus	TAFE	360T Education	Face-to-Face or Internet or Workplace	Term1 2012, Term2 2012, Term1 2013, Term2 2013, Term1 2017
TCHE5871C	Brunswick Campus	TAFE	360T Education	Distance / Correspondence or Face-to-Face or Internet or Workplace	Term1 2016

Course Contact: Paschal Somers

Course Contact Phone: +61 3 9925 4911

Course Contact Email: paschal.somers@rmit.edu.au

Course Description

This unit describes the performance outcomes, skills and knowledge required to plan and organise the assessment process, including recognition of prior learning (RPL), in a competency-based assessment system. It also includes the development of simple assessment instruments. This unit typically applies to assessors and workplace supervisors with assessment planning responsibilities; and trainers or other assessors responsible for planning assessment, including RPL.  The unit is suitable for those with an existing assessment strategy which documents the overall framework for assessment.
 

Pre-requisite Courses and Assumed Knowledge and Capabilities

None

National Competency Codes and Titles

National Element Code & Title:	TAEASS401B Plan assessment activities and processes
Elements:	1. Determine assessment approach 2. Prepare the assessment plan 3. Develop assessment instruments

Learning Outcomes

The learning outcomes for this course will enable the learner to:

• plan and organise the assessment process on a minimum of two occasions
collect evidence that demonstrates:
• documented assessment plans
• having covered a range of assessment events
• catering for a number of candidates
• different competency standards or accredited curricula
• an RPL assessment
• contextualisation of competency standards and the selected assessment tools, where required
• incorporation of reasonable adjustment strategies
• development of simple assessment instruments for use in the process
• organisational arrangements.
 

Overview of Assessment

The unit ’TAEASS401B Plan assessment activities and processes’ is holistically assessed with other units within the TAE40110 qualification.  A detailed list of units can be found in the ’In Class assessment task Project 1, Workplace Project 2 and Workplace Project 4’.