Elements and Performance Criteria
- Design a pre-training assessment process to analyse adult language, literacy and numeracy skills
- Design assessment process within an assessment framework
- Contextualise assessment process within organisational, policy and legislative framework and program funding profile
- Create pre-training assessment kit that provides opportunity for candidates to demonstrate their range of language, literacy and numeracy skills
- Select location for the assessment that meets the needs of candidate and assessor
- Conduct the assessment
- Clarify assessment process with candidate, including context and purpose
- Note and record conditions of assessment
- Tailor assessment process to meet individual needs of candidate, particular context and requirements of assessment
- Select and use questioning and self-assessment strategies to assess oral communication and learning
- Select and use range of reading and writing tasks for assessment purposes
- Select and use range of numeracy tasks for assessment purposes
- Analyse data to establish candidate's language, literacy and numeracy skills
- Compare responses to interview questions with benchmarks in relevant frameworks to analyse oral communication and learning
- Compare responses to reading material with text features and performance strategies to analyse reading skills
- Compare samples of candidate's writing with text features and performance strategies to analyse writing skills
- Compare responses to numeracy tasks with numeracy features and performance strategies to analyse numeracy skills
- Provide effective advice on suitable program options
- Report outcome of assessment
- Evaluate the assessment process