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 engage in discussions about history and theory relevant to own arts practice
critical thinking skills to analyse and interpret complex and varied references
initiative and enterprise skills to make connections between own arts practice and conclusions drawn from research
learning skills to continually monitor sources of information to expand knowledge base
literacy skills to interpret and summarise information and research findings
planning and organising skills to document and store research findings in a way that enables easy access in the future
technology skills to access and download information from the internet.
Required knowledge
sources of information about history and theory relating to own arts practice and the work of others
information-organisation practices and how they can be applied to own arts practice and the practices of others
intellectual property issues and legislation and how they relate to the use of information in own arts practice.
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.
Appropriate people may include: | clients content experts copyright representatives current industry practitioners industry association representatives information professionals, such as librarians and museum staff mentors teachers. |
Arts practice may include: | arts administration dance design interactive digital media music photo imaging visual arts and contemporary craft writing. |
Ways to explore may involve: | attendance at performances interviews with innovative arts practitioners participation in performances visits to: trade fairs galleries special events, such as biennial exhibitions laboratories. |
Sources of information may include: | archives audio film images internet journal articles objects oral histories performances stories technical or medium-specific information video texts: cultural historical religious scientific spiritual. |
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. |
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 evaluate information may include: | comparing considering merit contrasting critiquing discussion and debate reflecting. |
Key themes, messages and positions may include: | essence of the idea or concept influences on the idea or concept problems and challenges with the idea or concept reasons why the idea or concept should be supported relationship of idea or concept to: established tradition or practice new and emerging technology selling a creative team selling creative ideas self-promotion as a creative person way the idea or concept was developed who had developed the idea or concept and why. |
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