TAAASS401B Plan and organise assessment

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TAAASS401C Plan and organise assessment

Unit Descriptor

This unit specifies the competence required to plan and organize the assessment process in a competency-based assessment system

Competency Field Assessment

This unit addresses the competence of planning the assessment process and making the organisational arrangements which enable assessment to occur. It is applicable in both a learning and assessment pathway and an assessment only pathway. The critical focus of this unit is on developing an assessment plan that will be used to guide assessor/s in conducting competency-based assessments. The unit also covers contextualisation of the assessment benchmarks and assessment tools to address the environment in which assessment will take place and organising the human, material and physical resources needed to conduct the assessment.

This competence applies to planning and organising an assessment process which may involve single or multiple candidates being assessed against individual or multiple unit/s of competency in a process that includes a number of assessment events or activities over time.

The planning function in assessment is distinguished as a discrete activity and may be undertaken by the assessor responsible for assessing the candidates reflected in the assessment plan or by another person in the organisation. This competence may be applied in the context of an existing assessment strategy which documents the overall framework for assessment at a qualification level. In this context, the assessment plan adds further detail relating to the specific organisational arrangements for assessment/s against individual unit/s of competency.

The competence of developing an assessment strategy is separately addressed in two other units of the TAA04 Training and Assessment Training Package: TAADES501B Design and develop learning strategies (in a learning and assessment pathway) and TAAASS501B Lead and co-ordinate assessment systems and services (in an assessment only pathway). The achievement of this unit includes interpretation of competency standards, (where competency standards are used as the benchmarks for assessment). TAADES401B Use Training Packages to meet client needs addresses this skill in depth.

Application of the Unit

The competence specified in this unit is typically required by assessors, workplace supervisors with assessment planning responsibilities, trainers or other assessors responsible for planning assessment.

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