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Validation Experts
Validators
We offer both independent assessment validations services and Independent assessment moderation services to TAFE, community colleges, enterprise RTOs and private RTOs.
Independent assessment validation will save you a lot of time, and allow you to access expert Industry consultants, resource validators and subject matter experts.
You may need to validate certain training products more often where specific risks have been identified, for example, if your RTO’s industry consultation identifies areas of particular risk. ASQA may from time to time determine specific training products that must have particular attention paid to them and this advice would be published to www.asqa.gov.au
Compliance Requirements
of RTOs audited by ASQA were non-compliant against Standard 1
of RTOs audited by ASQA were found non-compliant against assessment practices
of RTOs audited by ASQA were found non-compliant against having qualified and competent trainers and assessors
complaints has been received by ASQA about RTOs' assessment practices
ASQA reported the following in their 2015 – 2016
Assessment Quality/ Management Type | A quality review/continuous improvement process involving: | ||
Explanation: | Checking that the assessment tools, methods, judgement, evidence and processes to ensure that the training product meet:
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Typical benchmarks used during the validation process include:
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Outcome: | Outcome may include making recommendations for improvements to the assessment tool / assessment processes/ assessment methods or assessment products. | ||
Timing/Occurrence: | Validation can occur before, during or after an assessment is conducted. Validation can be pre-assessment validation or post-assessment validation. Validation is ongoing. | ||
Primary purpose | Continuous improvement | ||
Statistically valid sample | Validation includes reviewing a statistically valid sample of the assessments and making recommendations for future improvements to the assessment tool, process and/or outcomes and acting upon such recommendations. | A statistically valid sample is one that is taken randomly from the set of assessment judgements being considered and that is sufficiently large that the outcomes of validation of the sample can be applied to the entire set of judgements. | There are a number of online tools you can use to generate the size of your sample, one of which is located at www.raosoft.com/samplesize.html. You can find others by searching the Internet for ’statistically valid sample size’. |
Assessment Quality/ Management Type | A quality control process involving: |
Explanation: | The process of bringing assessment judgements and standards into alignment. It is a process that ensures the same standards are applied to all assessment results within the same Unit(s) of Competency. It is an active process in the sense that adjustments to assessor judgements are made to overcome differences in the difficulty of the tool and/or the severity of judgements. Aims to ensure assessors have a common understanding of the unit requirements |
Outcome: | Outcome may include making adjustments to assessor judgements |
Timing/Occurrence: | Moderation is generally conducted before the finalisation of student results as it ensures the same decisions are applied to all assessment results within the same unit of competency. |
Primary purpose | Bring judgements and standards into alignment |
Statistically valid sample | The requirement in the Standards to undertake validation of assessment judgements does not prohibit your RTO from undertaking moderation activities, or any other process aimed at increasing the quality of assessment. (Ref: ASQA FAQ) |
Assessment Quality / Management Type | A quality review/continuous improvement process involving: |
Explanation: | Checking that the assessment tools, methods, judgement, evidence and processes to ensure that the training product meet:
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Outcome: | Outcome may include making recommendations for improvements to the assessment tool / assessment processes/ assessment methods or assessment products. |
Timing / Occurrence: | Validation can occur before, during or after an assessment is conducted. Validation can be pre-assessment validation or post-assessment validation. Validation is ongoing. |
Primary purpose | Continuous improvement |
Statistically valid sample | Validation includes reviewing a statistically valid sample of the assessments and making recommendations for future improvements to the assessment tool, process and/or outcomes and acting upon such recommendations. A statistically valid sample is one that is taken randomly from the set of assessment judgements being considered and that is sufficiently large that the outcomes of validation of the sample can be applied to the entire set of judgements. There are a number of online tools you can use to generate the size of your sample, one of which is located at www.raosoft.com/samplesize.html. You can find others by searching the Internet for ’statistically valid sample size’. |
Assessment Quality/ Management Type |
A quality control process involving: |
Explanation: | The process of bringing assessment judgements and standards into alignment. It is a process that ensures the same standards are applied to all assessment results within the same Unit(s) of Competency. It is an active process in the sense that adjustments to assessor judgements are made to overcome differences in the difficulty of the tool and/or the severity of judgements. Aims to ensure assessors have a common understanding of the unit requirements |
Outcome: | Outcome may include making adjustments to assessor judgements |
Timing/Occurrence: | Moderation is generally conducted before the finalisation of student results as it ensures the same decisions are applied to all assessment results within the same unit of competency. |
Primary purpose | Bring judgements and standards into alignment |
Statistically valid sample | The requirement in the Standards to undertake validation of assessment judgements does not prohibit your RTO from undertaking moderation activities, or any other process aimed at increasing the quality of assessment. (Ref: ASQA FAQ) |
Issues that may negatively affect your audit:
It is vital that RTOs undertake their validation and moderation process as it is a crucial part of meeting learner’s needs and quality assurance requirements of Standard 1 and 2 of the Standards for RTOs 2015.
In meeting student’s needs and the quality assurance, RTOs are to bound by Clauses 1.9 – 1.11 of the Standards for RTOs 2015:
- when assessment validation will occur;
- which training products will be the focus of the validation;
- who will lead and participate in validation activities;
- how the outcomes of these activities will be documented and acted upon.’
- Each training product is validated at least once every five years
- At least 50% of products validated within the first three years of each five year cycle.
- current Certificate IV in Training and Assessment
- vocational competencies and current industry skills relevant to the assessment being validated;
- current knowledge and skills in vocational teaching and learning; and
- Industry experts may be involved to ensure there is the combination of expertise set out in (a) to (c) above.
Our Packages
FAQs
Important information if you deliver any AQF qualification or assessor skill set from the Training and Education Training Package:
From 1 January 2016, to deliver any AQF qualification or assessor skill set from the Training and Education Training Package (or its successor), your RTO must have undergone an independent validation of its assessment system, tools, processes and outcomes in accordance with the requirements contained in Schedule 2 (and the definitions of independent validation and validation).
- Meet with you to discuss your specific requirements and needs
- Scope what you need to do and recommend a path forward
- Provide qualified industry specific validation and moderation experts
- Work with you to ensure your assessment system, processes, materials and practices produce valid assessment judgments
- Develop or assist you in writing and implementing your quality policies and procedures
- Develop a timetable for validating all your training products
- Lead or participate in your validation team OR undertake your assessment validation on our own (depending on your requirements)
- Work out a statistically valid sample size for your Post-Assessment Validation
- Recommend future improvements for your training products, systems and procedures.
- Provide a report for you detailing the above.
If you would like us to administer and manage the process for you, we will:
- Ensure compliance in every aspect of your validation and moderation process
- Assess your registered qualifications and the associated assessments for validation and moderation purposes
- Develop a five (5) year validations and moderation timetable
- Recommend a sample size
- Prepare all documentation for distribution to participants
- Prepare all record keeping documentation
- Hold and moderate the meeting/s
- Provide a report for you detailing the above
- Recommend future improvements for your training products, systems and procedures.
- Provide a report for you detailing the above.
*Only available in some industries where we have access to qualified and experienced trainers/assessors in the relevant industry.
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