Certificate IV in Training and Assessment

This document provides information and resources for the Certificate IV in Training and Assessment course. It includes units of competency, assessment tasks, assessment booklets, and assessment plans. The document also provides guidance on developing assessment tools, reviewing assessment tools, and trialing assessment tools.

Certificate IV in Training and Assessment
Certificate IV in Training and Assessment
UNITS OF COMPETENCY
TAEASS502Design and develop assessment tools
TAEASS401Plan assessment activities and processes
Assessment Task 4 – Assessment Booklet

Assessment Task 4
In this task, you are required to plan and organise RPL assessment processes for two candidates.
This candidate assessment booklet represents one candidate. You are to duplicate this booklet for your
second candidate.
You will need to engage a qualified colleague who has a TAE qualification or has vocational expertise in the
relevant area to provide feedback to you on your RPL assessment plan.
There are clear instructions throughout this resource and if at any time you have questions please do not
hesitate to contact your trainer/assessor.
1. Complete your assessment tool. This includes instructions to the candidate and assessor, the
evidence collection instrument and any other instrument needed for the assessment process (i.e.)
Third-party report.
2. Complete your own review of the RPL assessment tool you have created. To do this you are to
check your complete assessment tool using the quality review checklist provided against the
criteria.
3. Trial your RPL assessment tool in its entirety, by asking relevant to review the assessment tool for
validity and relevance.
4. The feedback you receive from the two points above is to be documented by you including any
changes made pertaining to the feedback received

Step 1 –RPL Assessment Plan
You are required to develop an RPL (recognition of prior learning) assessment plan for two different units of
competency (one in this resource).
The assessment plan template is to be used for each of the RPL assessment plans and must be completed
using a different unit of competency for each.

RPL Assessment Plan Template
RPL ASSESSMENT PLAN
Unit name and code
Purpose of the assessment
Target group
Context of assessment RPL
Specific needs of the individual
being assessed
Personnel involved in the
assessment process
Your name
RPL assessment information and evidence requirements
Suggested RPL evidence to be
supplied How it will be used
Element this may
addresses
i.e. Third-party report
i.e. student will provide a third-party
report that supports their claim that they
have used a computer to develop a
spreadsheet
Element 1
Assessment arrangements
Timeline for assessment – when will
each item be assessed?
Keep it short as if not successful you will want them to move
into a training and assessing environment
Privacy/confidentiality issues that
may impact on evidence portfolio
submitted?
Consider what evidence you are suggesting and what
confidential information it may contain and how to deal with
this
Where will assessment outcomes be
recorded?
I have been fully briefedin this assessment plan and agree on the details of the planned assessment
RPL Candidate Name: Date:

Signature of RPL’s Candidate: Date:

Step 2 - Assessment Instructionsand
Instruments
You are required to develop a complete assessment tool for the unit of competency indicated in the
assessment plan you have developed in the previous step.
Templates for the assessment tasks and methods are included for your use if you wish. Note you are
required to use a range of these throughout your assessment plans (x2).
Delete any templates you don’t use. Create your own or use any other templates as you wish.
You must create at least one of your own assessment instruments per assessment plan. Other existing
instruments can be used if suitable (acknowledge the source) and must be contextualised to suit your
assessment plan/context.

RPL Assessment Task Instructions Template
RPL ASSESSMENT TASK INSTRUCTIONS
Candidate name
Unit code and title
Purpose of assessment
Context of assessment
Advice and instructions to students as to how to use this RPL tool kit
 Safety considerations
It is needs to be taken care of safety in the workplace and the surrounding areas also. In order to generate
fire and electricity and additional arrangements should be made. In the workplace health and safety
concerns the most and prioritize while undertaking of RPL assessments.
 Resources required for assessment
Working Knowledge on Microsoft Word, Power Point, Microsoft Excel.
 What needs to be submitted?
The evidence to be supplied may vary and need to be submitted in either word or in portable document
format. The evidences like appraisal, face to face interviews, certificates, and third party reports.
 Resubmission The evidences need to be resubmitted during final assessment
Reasonable adjustments (assessor to indicate):
Also consider:
Clear instructions so that candidate is well aware of the exact evidence they should be supplying.
You may need to discuss things such as how current the evidence needs to be
Specify the format the evidence is provided in (think video submissions. pdf’s, jpg etc.)

Assessor name Date
Assessor signature

RPLEvidence Collection Tool Template
Candidate Name: Centre/Workplace:
Assessor Name:
Qualification
Unit of
Competency:
Code: Title:
Type of evidence supplied by candidate:
The evidence shows that for this unit I…
ASSESSOR
SIGN OFF
Element 1:
Element 2:
If there are more than 2 elements, add in more by creating
more rows.
Elements:
Specific Performance Evidence Requirements
From the assessment requirements document of the UoC
OR
Other evidence demonstrating the above requirements.
NOTE TO THE ASSESSOR:
Suggestions:
Add notes regarding the types of evidence that
might be supplied
Explain how evidence can be a variety of
documentation
Outline how current evidence may need to be
Outline how authenticity can assured
Discuss preferred options for types of evidence
(Direct, Indirect and Supplementary)
Outline how students are to complete this form
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TICK PARTICIPANT STATEMENT
I declare that the evidence submitted in my RPL application is my own work evidence.
None of this work has been completed by any other person
I have not cheated or plagiarised the work or colluded with others to prepare my submission
The evidence supplied is a true representation of my previous work tasks/history
I have correctly referenced all resources and reference texts (where required or applicable)
Participant name: ..............................................................................................................................................
Participant Signature: .......................................................................................... Date: ..................................
Assessor Report:
Assessor Recommendation
Unit ID Unit Name Grade
(C / NYC)
Assessor Name: ....................................................................................................................................
Assessor Signature: ................................................................................... Date: ...............................
Participant name: ................................................................................................................................
Participant Signature: .............................................................................. Date: ...............................
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RPLInstruments
Any instruments you have created to support this plan must be included here.
This may include:
Recording instrument for verbal questions The face to face interview will develop the students to
understand the candidate hence, confirming the purpose and context of the assessment. The relevant
person in accordance with ethical, organizational and legal requirements of the assessments needs to
be identified.
A third-party report the students may claim that they have used a computer in order to create a
data sheet by the help of third party reports (Element 1)
Certificates The certificates that had been received from earlier source which may be
beneficial in assessments of earlier tools
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Step 3 – Review your assessment tool
The assessment needs to be reviewed with unit of competency and as a result of this it has been
developed from previous step
The assessment quality review and checklist follows to guide through the review
The assessment may be reviewed with Yes or No, and also necessary changes are required to be
commented on review tool.
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RPLQuality Checklist
In order to review the RPL assessment we need to check the complete assessment tool as amend
and criteria required.
RPL ASSESSMENT QUALITY REVIEW CHECKLIST
Unit code and
name:
List all RPL documents that are to be reviewed as part of this process.
1. Assessment Plan
2. Assessment Instructions
3. Evidence Checklist
4. List any other instruments you have created:
Review Question Y/N/NA Comments and suggestions
a) The unit of competency is sufficiently addressed
including:
 Performance criteria
 Required skills/performance evidence
 Required knowledge/knowledge evidence
 Foundation skills
 Critical aspects of evidence/ Assessment
requirements
Y
The unit of competency had been
addressed sufficiently
b) Assessment Plan shows criteria against which students
will be assessed
Y The assessment plan has been
assessed per students
c) The assessment instructions for the student are:
 written in plain English and are clear and easy to
follow
Y It is made in plain English that will
help the students
d) Guidance to assessors is clear and easy to follow. Y Guidance to the assessor is
clarified and easily followed
e) The evidence types and RPL arrangements used match
all details provided in the RPL Assessment Plan.
Y The evidences are provided in
RPL assessment plan
f) A range of evidence types are suggested and they are
suitable to the intended outcomes of the unit.
Y The evidences are arranged and
those are provided in RPL
assessment in order to get better
results.
g) The evidence types ensure appropriate assessment of
practical skills1.
Y Assessments of practical skills are
enhanced
1
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RPL ASSESSMENT QUALITY REVIEW CHECKLIST
h) RPL third party reports, where provided, are:
 written in plain English so that the third party can
clearly understand what they are being asked
 only relied upon as supplementary evidence and
not primary evidence.
Y The whole assessment has been
done with easy English so that it
can be understand by anybody
easily
i) Principles of assessment and rules of evidence have
been considered.
Y Yes, Principles has been
considered
j) Evidence types appropriately reflect industry
expectations and current workplace practices
Y Industry expectation and current
scenario of workplace has been
discussed properly.
k) The evidence types suggested allow for collection of
sufficient quality and quantity of evidence.
Y It is suggested for sufficient
quality and evidence of quality.
l) RPL Assessment recording tools:
 are easy to use
 allow the recording of an overall outcome for the
whole unit (C/NYC).
Y The tools are easily useable
It will allow overall results for
whole units.
m) The RPL submission and evidence types ensure the
dimensions of competency are addressed:
 Task skills
 Task management skills
 Contingency skills
 Job role/environment skills
 Transfer skills.
Y The dimension of competency
were addressed so that it can
enhance task skills, contingency
skills, task management skills,
environment skills and transfer
skills.
n) The RPL submission tool ensures that the assessor will
know that the assessment is based on the student’s
own submissions.
Y The RPL submission tools will
give the idea of the assessments is
done by student himself or
herself.
Reviewer
signature:
Reviewer name: Date:
IMPROVEMENTS/ACTIONS TO BE TAKEN
Management to complete this section
Action Due
date
Responsibility Completed (Date)
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RPL ASSESSMENT QUALITY REVIEW CHECKLIST
Signature:
Name: Date:
Bibliography:
Ryland, Megan and Tom Scholte, "Rehearsing Resilience(And Beyond)" [2018] Kybernetes
Othman, Khatijah, "Work Ethics And Quality Workplace : An Observation From The Conventional
And Islamic Application" [2016] (17) ʻUlūm Islāmiyyah Journal
Step 4 – Trialling assessment tools
It is required to engage relevant personnel to trail the assessment tool. It should be supervised by a certified
TAE and qualified staff members who has sound knowledge of VET.
However, it is prior importance to validate the tool of contents and applicability
Documenting the feedback received related to trail conducted that can be either summaries the feedback
in the box provided below or any screen shot received via electronic mail.
Comments:
The assessment had been scrutinized thoroughly revised in order to make an effort for students task
become easier and smoother. The readable version of English has been provided so that it could be easily
understandable. It will ease out the task of students. The assessor had assessed as much as he / she can to
make students get good grades in following assessment
Amended assessment plans
In case of any positive or negative feedback / response please mention it in the box provided below .In case
no changes are required then mention as it is. Please do not leave it blank.
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No need of any change or changes required as the assessment is assessed properly.