Occupational Skills Programme: Assessment Practitioner

SP-220320 | NQF Level: 05 | 3 Contact Days

Equip Your Team to Deliver Quality, Fair, and Reliable Assessments

This accredited programme trains your team to conduct assessments that align with QCTO standards and ensure quality outcomes for learners. Your employees will gain the knowledge and skills to plan, conduct, and review assessments, ensuring that workplace competency and compliance are met at all levels.

Course Overview

The Occupational Skills Programme: Assessment Practitioner enables organizations to build in-house expertise for conducting effective assessments. This programme equips your staff to ensure that workplace assessments are compliant with QCTO standards and are fair, reliable, and valid.

This qualification focuses on the full assessment process, including the External Integrated Summative Assessment (EISA), which integrates all the skills and knowledge learned throughout the programme into a comprehensive assessment of competence.

By training your internal assessors, your organization can:

• Ensure compliance with QCTO and NQF standards.
• Enhance internal assessment processes and improve training outcomes.
• Reduce reliance on external assessors, fostering internal capacity.

Key Benefits for Your Organization

• Develop in-house assessors for greater control over assessment quality.
• Align assessments with QCTO and NQF requirements to ensure compliance and reliability.
• Prepare your team to effectively manage the External Integrated Summative Assessment (EISA), ensuring learners’ competence is accurately measured.
• Support continuous improvement and skills development through structured and ethical assessment processes.

What the Programme Covers

1. Introduction to Outcomes-Based Assessment

• Principles of outcomes-based education (OBE) and its application in assessment
• Understanding the role of the Assessment Practitioner
• Key concepts: validity, reliability, fairness, and practicality

2. Planning for Assessments

• Developing an assessment plan aligned with unit standards and learning outcomes
• Preparing appropriate assessment tools and selecting suitable methods (observations, tests, portfolios, etc.)
• Ensuring assessments meet QCTO and NQF standards

3. Conducting Assessments

• Facilitating assessments and ensuring that candidates understand the process
• Collecting evidence to determine competence in alignment with the learning outcomes
• Managing assessment sessions, including handling challenges such as language barriers or anxiety

4. Evaluating Evidence and Making Judgments

• Analyzing evidence to determine competency decisions
• Recording and reporting assessment results
• Providing constructive, clear feedback to candidates

5. External Integrated Summative Assessment (EISA)

• Overview of the External Integrated Summative Assessment (EISA) process
• Understanding how to integrate practical, theoretical, and reflective assessments into the EISA
• Aligning the EISA with organizational and QCTO standards to ensure all skills are assessed comprehensively

6. Reviewing the Assessment Process

• Ensuring assessments comply with Quality Management Systems (QMS)
• Continuously improving the assessment process based on feedback and outcomes
• Conducting internal audits and reviewing the effectiveness of assessment strategies

Programme Delivery

• Duration: 3 Contact Days
• Delivery includes practical, hands-on activities, real-world case studies, and the completion of portfolios.

Assessment

• Participants will complete practical projects, role-playing exercises, and case studies.
• An External Integrated Summative Assessment (EISA) will assess learners’ comprehensive understanding and competence across all learning modules, ensuring they can apply their knowledge in real-world scenarios.

Who Should Attend?

This programme is ideal for organizations looking to:

• Build internal capacity for workplace assessments.
• Train internal assessors who will be responsible for managing assessments in line with QCTO and NQF requirements.
• Ensure that all assessments meet the standards required by the External Integrated Summative Assessment (EISA).

Why Choose This Programme?

• QCTO-Aligned: Meets the latest standards for assessment, including the External Integrated Summative Assessment (EISA).
• Accredited: Compliant with QCTO and NQF Level 5 standards.
• Cost-Effective: Develop in-house expertise to reduce reliance on external assessors.
• Comprehensive: Prepares your team for every step of the assessment process, including the critical External Integrated Summative Assessment (EISA).

Accreditation

This programme is accredited by the Quality Council for Trades and Occupations (QCTO) and is registered at NQF Level 05. The programme ensures that participants are able to conduct assessments in compliance with the QCTO and NQF guidelines, and are fully prepared for the External Integrated Summative Assessment (EISA).

Develop Your Team’s Assessment Competency
Prepare your staff to conduct effective, reliable, and compliant assessments, including the External Integrated Summative Assessment (EISA), ensuring full alignment with QCTO and NQF standards.

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