TAAASS501A
Lead and coordinate assessment systems and services
This unit specifies the competence required to provide leadership in assessment and to coordinate assessment validation and appeals processes.
Competency Field
Assessment
Application of the Unit
Assessment leadership and coordination involves a complex mix of extending own and others' expertise in assessment practice, guiding and leading assessors, monitoring assessment practice and taking responsibility for assessment validation and appeals processes.
This competence also involves developing and/or confirming the assessment strategy for an assessment only pathway. In a learning and assessment pathway, the assessment strategy is determined as part of the learning strategy documentation. In that context, this vocational outcome is addressed in TAADES501A Design and develop learning strategies.
This unit also includes coordinating and managing assessment across multiple sites, and managing partnership arrangements for assessment services. These performance outcomes may not be applicable in all workplace contexts, depending on the size, scope and needs of the training and/or assessment organisation.
Where this unit is undertaken as a single unit outside of the TAA50104 Diploma of Training and Assessment, learners must demonstrate competence in the following pre-requisite units:
· TAAASS401A Plan and organise assessment
· TAAASS402A Assess competence
· TAAASS403A Develop assessment tools
· TAAASS404A Participate in assessment validation.
Achievement of this unit requires high-level language, literacy skills and cognitive skills in planning, analysis, evaluation and synthesis. This unit also requires leadership skills.
Related competence includes preparing/managing budgets/financial plans, records management, recruitment selection and performance management. These are addressed through a number of relevant imported units from the BSB01 Business Services Training Package. These are listed at the end of this unit for possible integrated assessment purposes.
The competence specified in this unit is typically required by lead trainers/facilitators/teachers who assess, lead assessors, program/training and/or assessment coordinators, training managers and training consultants.
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- Reconstruct the unit from the database and display it as a plain HTML page.
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This has several advantages over the cut-and-paste from PDF option, in that hard carriage returns are removed, and multi-column data is stored in tables. You do miss out on some formatting, but the data is otherwise mostly unchanged, the main difference being that terms and definitions in the range statement's variable/scope list displayed are in alphabetical order here (but not in the original).
- ?Training O2 Resources
- community submitted and rated resources for the unit
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A social news gathering site built around training package units. Students and trainers can submit links to on-line resources which will be voted on by other site users; commented on, and promoted (or not) depending on the resource's usefulness.
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This link will prompt you to download a TiddlyWiki for the unit. If you're not sure what a wiki is, the wikipedia is a good example, and it has a good entry on wikis too. TiddlyWikis are special cases of wikis in that they can be saved and edited on a local drive. You will need to save the TiddlyWiki onto your hard drive, and if you're using Internet Explorer, you'll need to allow JavaScript to run for the file (Firefox, Opera and Safari users shouldn't have this trouble).
- ?Assessment Template
- generate a spreadsheet for marking this unit in a classroom environment
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This link will create a csv file that can be opened with a spreadsheet application. It lists all the performance criteria and includes some calculations for a final grade. Without any indication of weighting for each criteria in the training package, I've had to allocate each an equal mark. You may need to adjust this :-)
- ?Evidence Guide
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This will generate a simple html page with a table for students to enter details of evidence they would like assessed as meeting the unit's performance criteria. You can copy this page into a word processor or print it out from your web browser for each student.
- ?Keywords
- a tag cloud of the keywords for the unit with links to on-line resouces for each word
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A machine generated list of links to resouces that may be useful when teaching this unit. Includes links to creative commons licensed images, wikipedia articles, and sites listed on del.icio.us
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I hope the tags are self explanatory, but drop me a line if you're having problems. I'd also love to see any novel new uses people come up with (and if you write a bit of PHP, a schema, DTD or XSLT to manipulate the data please send it to me so that I can include it here)
- ?MediaWiki and WikiSpaces formats
- mark up the unit in a wiki format, ready to paste into the wikiversity or wikispaces
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These links will create wikimedia and wikispaces versions of the unit. This should allow you to cut and paste the information into any wikimedia type wiki, such as the wikipedia or wikiversity or a wikispaces wiki.