Formats and tools
- Unit Description
- Reconstruct the unit from the xml and display it as an HTML page.
- Assessment Tool
- an assessor resource that builds a framework for writing an assessment tool
- Assessment Template
- generate a spreadsheet for marking this unit in a classroom environment. Put student names in the top row and check them off as they demonstrate competenece for each of the unit's elements and performance criteria.
- Assessment Matrix
- a slightly different format than the assessment template. A spreadsheet with unit names, elements and performance criteria in separate columns. Put assessment names in column headings to track which performance criteria each one covers. Good for ensuring that you've covered every one of the performance criteria with your assessment instrument (all assessement tools together).
- Wiki Markup
- mark up the unit in a wiki markup codes, ready to copy and paste into a wiki page. The output will work in most wikis but is designed to work particularly well as a Wikiversity learning project.
- Evidence Guide
- create an evidence guide for workplace assessment and RPL applicants
- Competency Mapping Template
- Unit of Competency Mapping – Information for Teachers/Assessors – Information for Learners. A template for developing assessments for a unit, which will help you to create valid, fair and reliable assessments for the unit, ready to give to trainers and students
- Observation Checklist
- create an observation checklist for workplace assessment and RPL applicants. This is similar to the evidence guide above, but a little shorter and friendlier on your printer. You will also need to create a seperate Assessor Marking Guide for guidelines on gathering evidence and a list of key points for each activity observed using the unit's range statement, required skills and evidence required (see the unit's html page for details)
- Self Assessment Survey
- A form for students to assess thier current skill levels against each of the unit's performance criteria. Cut and paste into a web document or print and distribute in hard copy.
- Moodle Outcomes
- Create a csv file of the unit's performance criteria to import into a moodle course as outcomes, ready to associate with each of your assignments. Here's a quick 'how to' for importing these into moodle 2.x
- Registered Training Organisations
- Trying to find someone to train or assess you? This link lists all the RTOs that are currently registered to deliver AHCSDT305, 'Perform a seed moisture test'.
- Google Links
- links to google searches, with filtering in place to maximise the usefulness of the returned results
- Books
- Reference books for 'Perform a seed moisture test' on fishpond.com.au. This online store has a huge range of books, pretty reasonable prices, free delivery in Australia *and* they give a small commission to ntisthis.com for every purchase, so go nuts :)
Elements and Performance Criteria
Element | Performance criteria |
Elements describe the essential outcomes. | Performance criteria describe the performance needed to demonstrate achievement of the element. |
1. Prepare for testing | 1.1 Check submitted sample is in an intact, moisture-proof container with as much air as possible excluded 1.2 Select appropriate apparatus for seed moisture testing 1.3 Equilibrate temperature of submitted sample to that of the testing laboratory 1.4 Reduce exposure of sample to the atmosphere of the laboratory to an absolute minimum, according to the species and ISTA requirements |
2. Prepare samples for drying | 2.1 Mix submitted sample thoroughly 2.2 Take a minimum of three subsamples and combine to form a working sample of the required size 2.3 Limit exposure to air to thirty seconds during sample reduction 2.4 Where cutting or grinding is required, prepare one working sample so that two replicates can be drawn from the cut/ground material 2.5 Undertake pre-drying where moisture content exceeds International Seed Testing Association (ISTA) requirements 2.6 Weigh containers and lids before and after filling 2.7 Ensure weighing procedures conform with ISTA requirements and express weight in grams to at least three decimal places 2.8 Keep lids on containers until samples are placed in oven |
3. Dry and weigh sample | 3.1 Distribute working sample evenly over the surface of the container 3.2 Rapidly place open containers and their lids into an oven maintained at the required temperature for the species being tested 3.3 Commence drying period once oven returns to the required temperature after placement of containers 3.4 Replace lids before cooling to ambient temperature in desiccators at the end of prescribed drying period 3.5 Weigh the containers with lids and dried contents after cooling |
4. Calculate results | 4.1 Express moisture content as a percentage of the weight of the original sample 4.2 Report result of test |