Skills Education

Why do VET assessments suck?

When you combine auditor/compliance-centred focus and unit jargon, to learners, VET assessments can suck. 😖 

VET assessments often contain so much information and are written in ways that become confusing for learners that they end up making learners anxious and stressed and/or result in incorrectly submitted work.  

While trainers and assessors may not be able to easily change the assessment tasks, there are many alternatives that they can offer their learners to help them understand what is required. 

By incorporating these strategies into their training programs, trainers can better support their learners to know how to properly unpack and complete their assessment tasks.

This session will share no less than 15 tools and teaching and learning strategies which will:

• Show how to help learners cut through excess information in assessment instruments that is confusing
• Help your learners ‘crack the code’ of complex assessment tasks 
• Help your learners to properly know what the assessment is asking so they understand what to do and have a better chance of being successful in their assessment attempts

Backed by research:

Passing assessments is the key to successfully obtaining a qualification which in turn can open doors to employment, new careers and/or promotions.  

However, poorly written assessments disadvantage learners as they are hard to understand and complete, which in turn reduces learners' confidence in starting and completing assessments (Tai, et al, 2022).  This can lead to learners dropping out of their training course.

This session shares effective assessment support tools and strategies which help learners ‘crack the code’ of complex assessment tasks, all without having to change the assessment itself.

These tools and strategies will help to ensure that ALL learners are afforded the same opportunities to complete their assessments, and achieve their training goals.

Other Details:

• Recorded - August 2024
• Duration - Approx. 60 mins
• Access - 30 days from date of purchase (*annual for PD Library Pass subscribers, Education Matters PRO and Elite members)
• Trigger your certificate on completion

Past Feedback:

Here's what others who watched this session had to say:

• This session gave me some nice new tools to try
• Very informative session - thank you!

Register for this session separately or as part of the

2 session bundle 'Increase Assessment Success for Students'