Assessing Against Unit Standards

This programme is developed around a planned combination of learning outcomes that will provide learners with the competencies required in education, training, and/or assessing institutions, and/or in workplaces, who are required to assess people against documented performance standards or unit standards written for registration on the National Qualifications Framework (NQF). The course covers the two NQF registered Unit Standard US 0336 and US 0037 – dealing with assessments. The programme provides individuals with the range of skills required to be able to perform a series of activities that form part of the assessment of learning outcomes. This covers skills such as planning the assessment, preparing learners for assessment, conducting the assessment and evaluating the evidence submitted for competence as well as providing the relevant feedback. Individuals who will typically embark on this skills programme are those who have an interest in a career in education and training or are involved in training in the workplace and will conduct assessments within their fields of expertise in line with the Criteria for the NTA Registration of Assessors.Individuals credited with these two Unit Standards will be able to demonstrate knowledge of the use of unit standards in assessment, prepare to conduct assessments, conduct assessments, verify the quality of evidence to be used for making assessment decisions, make and record an assessment decision, and reflect on assessment practice and decisions.