Practical Training and Assessment
Workplace training, workplace assessment, and workplace simulations are training methods which enable students to develop and demonstrate skills in a real-world setting.
Workplace training, workplace assessment, and workplace simulations enable students to develop and demonstrate skills in a real-world setting.
By observing and assessing skills under realistic conditions, and in real-world environments, providers can ensure stakeholders have confidence that learners’ competency reflects contemporary, industry-appropriate situations.
A decision to offer actual or simulated workplace training must consider a number of factors, including:
- training package requirements
- the learner cohort
- access to resource and facility needs
- the outcomes from consultation with industry.
ASQA has developed the following guidance to assist providers to deliver practical training and assessment in the workplace or under simulation.
The following example videos have been developed to support providers in deciding how best to structure practical assessment.
Video: Mandatory workplace assessment – CHCCCS023 Support Independence and Wellbeing
Video: Assessing under simulation – SISFFIT003 Instruct Fitness Programs
Training
Training is the process used by an RTO or a third party delivering services on its behalf, to facilitate learning and the acquisition of competencies in relation to the training product on the RTO’s scope of registration.
The Standards for RTOs 2015 (definitions)
The strategies a provider implements for training is aimed at helping a student to learn, reflect on and practice the unit requirements in different contexts.
Training strategies for a unit of competency or qualification, including the amount of training provided, will vary based on the learner cohort and the skills they already hold. A provider can decide how it chooses to deliver training but it must be sufficient so that a student can perform all outcomes of a unit of competency, before undertaking assessment.
Assessment
Assessment means the process of collecting evidence and making judgements on whether competency has been achieved, to confirm that an individual can perform to the standard required in the workplace, as specified in a training package or VET accredited course.
The Standards for RTOs 2015 (definitions)
The unit of competency requirements in a training package describe the assessment requirements that must be achieved before competency is determined.