Your assessor must make sure the assessment meets the Core and elective units: The Training Package lists the principles of assessment—that is, your assessment must be qualification requirements including the number of units required. valid, reliable, flexible and fair. These include core units (you must complete these) and elective units (you can choose these, usually from a wide range of units). Competence, competent: To be awarded a qualification, you must demonstrate that you are competent in all required units of competency. This that you must be able to demonstrate that you currently hold the skills and knowledge in the units, and that you can perform tasks to the standard expected in the workplace. Evidence: Your assessor will consider evidence in assessing your RPL assessment: In RPL, a qualified assessor, on behalf of a competence—evidence can be gathered from workplace Registered Training Organisation (RTO), will consider evidence of documents, discussions with you and others, demonstrations of your competence in applying skills and knowledge you have gained workplace tasks, testimonials, third party reports and structured through work and life experiences. assessment tasks. Your assessor will discuss this with you. Because the target group for this RPL Toolkit is people working in Your assessor must be sure that the evidence meets the rules of early childhood education and care, workplace assessment of evidence—that is, it must be valid (related to the unit), sufficient competence is possible and is required by some units. (enough to make a decision), current (show that you hold the skills now) and authentic (your own work).
Core and elective units: The Training Package lists the qualification requirements including the number of units required. These include core units (you must complete these) and elective units (you can choose these, usually from a wide range of units). Competence, competent: To be awarded a qualification, you must demonstrate that you are competent in all required units of competency. This that you must be able to demonstrate that you currently hold the skills and knowledge in the units, and that you can perform tasks to the standard expected in the workplace. RPL assessment: In RPL, a qualified assessor, on behalf of a Registered Training Organisation (RTO), will consider evidence of your competence in applying skills and knowledge you have gained through work and life experiences. Because the target group for this RPL Toolkit is people working in early childhood education and care, workplace assessment of competence is possible and is required by some units. Your assessor must make sure the assessment meets the principles of assessment—that is, your assessment must be valid, reliable, flexible and fair. Evidence: Your assessor will consider evidence in assessing your competence—evidence can be gathered from workplace documents, discussions with you and others, demonstrations of workplace tasks, testimonials, third party reports and structured assessment tasks. Your assessor will discuss this with you. Your assessor must be sure that the evidence meets the rules of evidence—that is, it must be valid (related to the unit), sufficient (enough to make a decision), current (show that you hold the skills now) and authentic (your own work).
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