Earn Certification as Recognition for Professional Practice - Advanced Practice: Clustering - Microcredential 

Have your existing skills and knowledge to develop clustered assessment tools verified via assessment and on successful completion, be issued with professional certification of your practice in this advanced area of VET assessment tool development. 

On successful completion of the program, be issued with professional certification of your skills in this Advanced Practice: Clustering. 

 

Note: This certification program can be taken as a stand-alone program but as clustering is a key component of candidate-centred RPL tools, the course is also embedded within the Advanced RPL Assessor certification.

Are you already experienced in developing assessment tools that make assessors, employers & candidates happy?


ü Want to have an easily identifiable way to alert employers you have expertise in clustering?

ü Interested in getting your existing practice benchmarked?


The assessment-only option of the Advanced Practice - Clustering is designed to recognise that you can develop assessment tools to give users a better experience

 

What we know:

ü Clustering is recognised as an effective way to support holistic training and assessment 

ü Clustering allows assessment to align with, and be more representative of, actual workplace tasks

ü Not every assessor / assessment developer has the advanced skills to properly cluster - and de-cluster! - units of competency

ü If you're reading this page, you're considering the next step to set yourself apart as someone experienced in this advanced practice

  


Why do the Advanced Practice - Clustering Credential?

ü Be recognised for a skillset that is highly sought-after

ü Get your expertise in this area verified via assessment and earn a certification recognising your professional practice

ü Demonstrate that you know when to cluster, when not to cluster, how to avoid the risks and how to use your advanced mapping skills to your advantage  



Key considerations

ü This program is not a qualification nor is it linked to a TAE Statement of Attainment

ü Even though you have substantial prior experience, there is still one-on-one mentor support from an experienced assessor with substantial experience in TAE and clustering if you want it

ü Have your assessment reviewed and verified by a real person – not an automark and not in a ‘tick and flick’ process

ü On successful completion, also be issued with a mapping document that shows how the verification of your skills aligns to specific TAE units of competency


Who is this course for?

ü Experienced trainers/assessor who want to have their knowledge and skills in assessment tool design and development distinctly recognised  

ü Instructional designers/assessment writers who have experience developing assessment tools  

What can I expect from Advanced Practice: Clustering?

The Advanced Practice: Clustering program will verify your understanding and skills to:

  • Identify compatible units of competency and document similarities in evidence requirements across them
  • Plan out and map the instruments to be used in the tools
  • Confidently design and develop clustered assessment tools 


To be awarded a microcredential, you must successfully complete an assessment according to the stipulations listed:

  • Design and develop a clustered assessment tool that:
    • Clusters two (2) units of competency at AQF level 3 or above
    • Is aligned to the vocational area in which you work

  • The clustered assessment tool will be inclusive of:
    • Candidate version of assessment 
    • Assessor version of assessment - inclusive of benchmarks, exemplars, rubrics etc
    • Pre-mapping matrix
    • Mapping document


Assessments will be reviewed and verified by CatoHR Assessors as recognised experts in the field of RPL and clustered assessment tool design and development.

While this is an assessment-only pathway there are formative activities included in the course to test your current practice.

What do I have to do?

Want to complete the learning? 

If you want to confirm your practice and/or undertake the learning linked to developing clustered assessment tools, you may decide to undertake certification via the learn and assess pathway. 

In the learn and assess pathway for this microcredential, you will have access to learning eBooks, video recordings, formative activities, peer and mentoring support - all designed to guide and assist you to develop your assessment materials. 

If you want to extend your application of clustering to the RPL environment , an Advanced RPL Assessor program might be of interest.

Not interested in doing the assessment? 

Just after PD for advanced practitioner concepts? The Learning Program offers the same content and support as the 'Learn and Assess Certification Program' but without the need to complete any assessment activity. 

Please note that while this option is an excellent PD opportunity, it does not lead to certification. On successful completion of the Learning Program, to recognise your efforts, you will be issued with a digital badge and you can trigger a personalised certificate as a record of your participation. If you successfully complete the training in the Learning Program and decide at a later date you would like to be certified, you can enrol in the Certification Program; Assessment only, or Learn and Assess pathway.

Click on the image below to be taken to the Advanced Practice: Clustering Learning Program where you can read more and enrol

Other options

Find out what else is on offer to support Advanced RPL Assessor capabilities