Copy and paste from the following data to produce each assessment task. Write these in plain English and spell out how, when and where the task is to be carried out, under what conditions, and what resources are needed. Include guidelines about how well the candidate has to perform a task for it to be judged satisfactory.
Required skills
communication skills to share information with colleagues and peers
initiative and enterprise skills to identify areas of own arts practice that could be enhanced by applying knowledge of history and theory
learning skills to keep up-to-date with information relevant to own arts practice
literacy skills to read and understand relevant sources of information
planning and organising skills to:
collect and review information on a given topic
maintain filing and information retrieval systems
technology skills to access and download information from the internet.
Required knowledge
sources of information on history and theory for arts practice and own area of arts practice
techniques for organising information relating to history and theory and applying this information to own area of work
protocols to be observed when gathering information of a culturally sensitive nature
intellectual property issues and legislation as they relate to using information in own work.
The range statement relates to the unit of competency as a whole. It allows for different work environments and situations that may affect performance. Bold italicised wording, if used in the performance criteria, is detailed below. Essential operating conditions that may be present with training and assessment (depending on the work situation, needs of the candidate, accessibility of the item, and local industry and regional contexts) may also be included.
Sources of information may include: | audio film images internet journal articles objects oral histories performances stories texts: cultural historical religious scientific spiritual technical or medium-specific information video. |
Information may relate to: | aesthetics criticism cultural issues gender and identity issues histories of art, craft and design histories of performances or presentations and related skills land and place new technologies politics spiritual concerns world histories. |
Arts practice may include: | arts administration dance design entertainment interactive digital media music photo imaging visual arts and craft writing. |
Appropriate people may include: | content experts copyright representatives current industry practitioners industry association representatives information professionals, such as librarians and museum staff mentors teachers. |
Ways to organise information may involve: | collecting diagrams compiling charts constructing mind maps sketching storing information in a range of formats, such as: diaries electronic and hard copy files scrapbooks. |
Ways to enhance own arts practice may involve: | applying knowledge of: current trends historical developments in a particular area work of artists generally work of others in a particular field. |
Copy and paste from the following performance criteria to create an observation checklist for each task. When you have finished writing your assessment tool every one of these must have been addressed, preferably several times in a variety of contexts. To ensure this occurs download the assessment matrix for the unit; enter each assessment task as a column header and place check marks against each performance criteria that task addresses.
Observation Checklist