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Elements and Performance Criteria

1. Monitor assessment practice
   • Work with colleagues to systematically monitor assessment practice
   • Actively engage with, and support, other assessors as they work to improve assessment practice
   • Analyse assessment records ensuring legal, organisational and ethical requirements are being met, and appropriate advice is provided to improve record keeping
2. Coordinate assessment validation activities
   • Initiate validation in line with Australian Skills Quality Authority (ASQA) guidelines and organisational, legal and ethical requirements
   • Undertake risk assessment and analysis to determine the purpose, focus and context of validation activities
   • Consider and determine approaches to validation
   • Determine and confirm participants in validation, and organise any materials and resources needed for validation
   • Provide guidance to support participants throughout the validation process
   • Finalise and process validation documentation in accordance with assessment system, legal and organisational procedures, and present to relevant people, within an agreed timeframe
   • Identify recommendations from validation processes, and forward to the appropriate authority

Performance Evidence

The candidate must show evidence of the ability to complete tasks outlined in the elements and performance criteria of this unit, including:

leading at least one validation process

providing support to other assessors, including modelling good assessment and validation practice

contributing positively to the work of assessors and others involved in carrying out assessments and validation

taking responsibility for initiating, organising and facilitating assessment validation on at least three occasions

using outcomes of validation to improve assessment practice.

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Knowledge Evidence

The candidate must be able to demonstrate essential knowledge to effectively complete the task outlined in the elements and performance criteria of this unit. This includes knowledge of:

the purpose and focus of internal and external validation, and the critical aspects of validation

different activities and tools for validation

NVR/AQTF requirements for assessment

the organisation's assessment system policies and procedures, including validation processes

the characteristics of well-constructed assessment tools and why, what assessment methods and instruments work for what types of evidence

the rules of evidence and why they are important, particularly in a validation context

assessment strategies, and assessment plans and their components

legal, organisational and ethical responsibilities associated with the assessment system.

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