Elements and Performance Criteria
- Determine focus of the assessment tool
- Identify target group of candidates, purposes of assessment tool, and contexts in which the tool will be used
- Access relevant benchmarks for assessment and interpret them to establish evidence required to demonstrate competence
- Identify, access and interpret organisational, legal and ethical requirements and relevant contextualisation guidelines
- Identify other related documentation to inform assessment tool development
- Design assessment tool
- Select assessment methods that support the collection of defined evidence, taking into account the context in which the assessment will take place and meeting the principles of assessment
- Enable candidates to show or support their claim for recognition of current competency through selected assessment methods
- Consider different assessment instruments for the selected assessment methods to generate options for collection of evidence
- Consider how the assessment instruments will be administered
- Develop assessment tool
- Develop specific assessment instruments that address the evidence to be collected
- Define and document clear and specific procedures instructing assessor and candidate on the administration and use of the instruments
- Consider requirements of assessment system policies and procedures and address storage and retrieval needs, and review, evaluation and version control procedures as part of this process
- Review and trial assessment tool
- Check draft assessment tools against evaluation criteria and amend as required
- Trial assessment tools to validate content and applicability
- Collect and document feedback from relevant people involved in trialling
- Make amendments to final tool based on analysis of feedback
- Appropriately format and file finalised assessment tool according to assessment system policies and procedures and organisational, legal and ethical requirements