This document provides guidance on gathering evidence for competency-based assessment. It outlines that assessors should prepare candidates, use appropriate assessment methods and tools, support candidates, address occupational health and safety issues, and apply principles of assessment. Evidence can come from products, documents, observations, portfolios, answers to questions, or supervisor reports. Assessors should brief candidates, use tools to guide evidence gathering, give clear instructions, and stop assessments if risks are present.

1. Topic 2: Gathering evidence TAEASS402A Assess competence Participant Workbook pages 19 to 44

2. At the end of this session, you should know how to: work with the candidates to gather evidence including: preparing the candidates using assessment method and tools supporting candidates addressing OHS issues applying the principles of assessment gathering evidence for RPL. © 2010 Innovation and Business Industry Skills Council Ltd

3. What is evidence? Anything that shows what a candidates knows and can do. It could be a: product document record of an observation portfolio of documentation report of a process answers to questions report from supervisor (third party). © 2010 Innovation and Business Industry Skills Council Ltd Participant Workbook pages 19

4. Preparing the candidates © 2010 Innovation and Business Industry Skills Council Ltd Participant Workbook pages 20

5. Briefing the candidate purpose what is involved in competency-based assessment criteria candidate will be assessed against what you as the assessor will be doing what you expect the candidate to be doing what supports will be provided what happens after the evidence has been gathered appeals process. © 2010 Innovation and Business Industry Skills Council Ltd Participant Workbook pages 22

6. Assessment method examples © 2010 Innovation and Business Industry Skills Council Ltd Participant Workbook pages 23

7. Assessment tools The procedures for gathering and interpreting evidence such as: instructions for assessors and candidates resources special arrangements instruments to be used for gathering evidence. © 2010 Innovation and Business Industry Skills Council Ltd Participant Workbook pages 24

8. Assessment instrument examples profile of acceptable performance templates and proformas questions details of activities checklists self-assessment materials case studies scenario for simulation. © 2010 Innovation and Business Industry Skills Council Ltd Participant Workbook pages 24

9. Putting it all together © 2010 Innovation and Business Industry Skills Council Ltd Participant Workbook pages 26

10. Your own preparation © 2010 Innovation and Business Industry Skills Council Ltd Participant Workbook pages 27

11. Gathering the evidence use assessment tools as a guide to gathering evidence for assessment give candidates clear instructions. © 2010 Innovation and Business Industry Skills Council Ltd Participant Workbook pages 28

12. Using the tools for ... © 2010 Innovation and Business Industry Skills Council Ltd Participant Workbook pages 29

13. Supporting the candidate © 2010 Innovation and Business Industry Skills Council Ltd Participant Workbook pages 33

14. Addressing OHS risk check physical environment is safe check equipment is working properly check candidate is able to safely operate equipment STOP THE ASSESSMENT IFTHERE IS A RISK. © 2010 Innovation and Business Industry Skills Council Ltd Participant Workbook pages 35

15. Applying principles of assessment © 2010 Innovation and Business Industry Skills Council Ltd Participant Workbook pages 36

16. Applying principles of assessment © 2010 Innovation and Business Industry Skills Council Ltd

17. Gathering evidence for RPL © 2010 Innovation and Business Industry Skills Council Ltd Participant Workbook pages 38

18. The next step You should now: start gathering evidence for your assessment tasks. © 2010 Innovation and Business Industry Skills Council Ltd