PSPGEN067 Assessment Guide

Assessment Guide
PSPGEN067 Establish and maintain
strategic networks
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Introduction
This Assessment Booklet provides you with information and your assessment tasks for this
unit. A requirement of your qualification, from which the unit of competence is taken, is the
application of the concepts you have been learning.
The assessment activities are an important part of your course as they provide an opportunity
to apply what you have been learning and they give both you and your trainer feedback on
your progress.
Please read this section carefully before commencing the assessment tasks.
RECOGNITION OF PRIOR LEARNING
If you can demonstrate that you have the skills and knowledge within this unit, you should
speak to a trainer/assessor about this and apply for recognition of prior learning.
COMPLETING YOUR ASSESSMENTS
Prior to Assessment
You must be advised of your rights before and after the assessments including the right to
appeal.
Assessors must provide you with all relevant information relating to the assessments prior to
commencement and of the appeals procedure that can be utilised if you wish to appeal against
the assessment outcome or make a complaint.
Submitting Assessments
Each part of this assessment booklet needs to be carefully completed and you are required to
attain a ‘satisfactory’ mark for each of the assessment activities. Full details of what is required
have been detailed in instructions before each assessment task.
You must submit assessment tasks with the cover sheet provided at the end of this Booklet.
You must attach one cover sheet per assessment upon submission, ticking the relevant
assessment box. Ensure you sign the form after completion.
Assessments should be submitted on or before their due date. Extensions for individual
assessment tasks may be negotiated in specific circumstances. Consultation on this must
occur prior to the due date and extensions due to illness will require a medical certificate.
Extensions will be confirmed to you in writing.
Plagiarism and Referencing
You are reminded that plagiarism will not be tolerated. Information, ideas etc. quoted or
paraphrased from another source, must be acknowledged with “quotation marks” around the
relevant words/sentences or ideas and cited at the end of the document. Sources of
information, ideas etc. must be provided in alphabetical order by author’s surname (including
author’s full name, name of document/ book/internet etc. and year and place of publishing) or
may be included in brackets in the text.
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ASSESSMENT OUTCOMES
The evidence you submit will be assessed and you will be given written feedback. Each
assessment task will be marked as either Satisfactory or Unsatisfactory and once all
assessments have been marked you will be given an outcome of Competent or Not Competent
for the unit of competence. Upon demonstrating competence, you will be awarded this unit. If
you are assessed as Not Competent, you will be given some suggestions for improvement and
asked to redo your assessment.
Re-assessment
In the event you are deemed Unsatisfactory, you will be allowed two (2) further attempts at an
assessment within the timeframe of this course.
As part of the assessment process, you must abide by any relevant assessment policies as
provided to you. If you feel you are not yet ready to be assessed or this assessment is unfair,
you should be offered the opportunity to discuss all options that are available to you to
complete the assessment.
Reasonable Adjustment
RTOs and Trainers/Assessors are obliged by law to make reasonable adjustment to ensure
maximum participation of students with disability in teaching, learning and assessment
activities. This includes:
• ensuring that course activities are sufficiently flexible;
• providing additional support where necessary; and
• offering a reasonable substitute within the context of the course where a student cannot
participate.
Reasonable adjustment is defined in section 4(1) of the Employment and the Disability
Discrimination Act as ‘an adjustment to be made by a person is a reasonable adjustment
unless making the adjustment would impose an unjustifiable hardship on the person’.
Reasonable adjustment as it applies to participation in learning and assessment activities may
include:
• customising resources or activities within a training package or accredited course;
• modifying a presentation medium;
• providing additional support;
• providing assistive or adaptive technologies;
• making additional information accessible both before enrolment and during the course;
and
• monitoring these adjustments to ensure that the student’s needs continue to be met.
An individual’s access to the assessment process should not be adversely affected by
restrictions placed on the location or context of assessment beyond the requirements specified
in the training package. Reasonable adjustments can be made to ensure equity in assessment
for people with disabilities. Adjustments include any changes to the assessment process or
context that meet the individual needs of the person with a disability, but do not change
competency outcomes.
The assessment process must:
 Provide for valid, reliable, flexible and fair assessment
 Provide for judgement to be made on the basis of sufficient evidence
 Offer valid, authentic and current evidence.
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COMPETENCY ASSESSMENT
Within this qualification are units of competency that form the basis of your assessments.
These can be located in your Unit Outline Booklet.
ASSESSMENTS FOR THIS UNIT
There are three (3) forms of assessment or evidence gathering methods for this unit of
competency. You are required to complete and submit all the assessments.
Assessment 1. Activities
This assessment consists of eight (8)activities to assess your knowledge of this unit. You must
answer all questions. Most questions require short answers although some questions require a
more detailed response. You should provide typed responses. You may use various sources of
information including: text books, learning workbooks, other documents and the internet and
must list your sources.
Assessment 2. Skills & Knowledge Activity
This assessment provides the student with an opportunity to demonstrate their knowledge of
the foundation skills, knowledge evidence and performance evidence of this unit. The student
will be required to respond to six (6) questions relating to a range of communication methods
and channels with diverse strategic networks, applying legislation, regulations and policies
relating to public sector environment, resolving conflict in a strategic networking context and
applying procedures relating to occupational health and safety and environment in the context
of strategic networking.
Students must record their answers in a separate A4 document and submit by attaching to
their cover page.
Assessment 3. Major Activity
This assessment is a major activity which consists of four (4) questions to assess the student’s
knowledge of the entire unit.
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