Assessment Principles
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Tutor Assessment Principles
- Assessment decisions for criteria that must be assessed in the workplace, as identified in unit assessment requirements, must be made in a real work environment by an occupationally competent assessor.
- Assessment decisions for criteria that must be assessed in the workplace (competence-based assessment criteria) must be made by an assessor with the expertise to make assessment decisions.
- Competence-based assessment must include direct observation as the main source of evidence.
- Simulation may only be utilised as an assessment method for competence-based assessment criteria where this is specified in the assessment requirements of the unit.
Expert witnesses can be used for direct observation where:
- They have occupational expertise for specialist areas, or
- The observation is of a particularly sensitive nature.
- The use of expert witnesses should be determined and agreed by the assessor.
- Assessment of criteria not identified in the unit assessment requirements as requiring assessment in the workplace may take place in or outside of a real work environment.
- Assessment decisions for knowledge based assessment criteria must be made by an occupationally knowledgeable assessor.
- Assessment decisions for knowledge based assessment criteria must be made by an assessor qualified to make assessment decisions. Where assessment is electronic or undertaken according to a set grid, the assessment decisions are made by the person who has set the answers.
An expert witness must:
- Have a working knowledge of the course units for which they are providing witness testimony
- Be occupationally competent in their area of expertise
- Have EITHER any qualification that includes assessment of workplace performance AND/OR a professional work role which involves evaluating the everyday practice of staff.
