This document discusses contributing to assessment validation by participating in assessment validation activities. It outlines that assessment validators can come from internal or external sources, including assessors, industry representatives, and technical experts. Their roles may include reviewing assessment tools and materials, providing feedback on candidates' experiences, and evaluating tools against assessment principles. The document lists materials commonly used in validation, such as units of competency, assessment strategies, completed assessment tools, and policies. It describes templates used to structure validation discussions around topics like how well tools address units and the acceptability of evidence. Participants are encouraged to identify a validation process to engage in and determine their role.

1. Topic2: Contribute to Assessment Validation TAEASS403A Participate in assessment validation Participant Workbook pages 17 to 20 © 2010 Innovation and Business Industry Skills Council Ltd

2. At the end of this session, you should know how to: contribute to assessment validation in different ways plan and prepare to participate in assessment validation. © 2010 Innovation and Business Industry Skills Council Ltd

3. Who contributes? The validation approach usually determines who will participate. The validation may: be internal or external be in partnership with another RTO include industry representatives or technical experts. Assessors are very important participants. © 2010 Innovation and Business Industry Skills Council Ltd Participant Workbook page 17

4. Various roles Your role may include the following: © 2010 Innovation and Business Industry Skills Council Ltd

5. Materials required Materials required may include: unit of competency evidence lists relevant assessment strategy or plan samples of assessment instruments and tools samples of completed instruments and tools and evidence gathered samples of evidence, such as products and documents assessment exemplars assessment policies and procedures feedback from candidates validation templates. Ensure that you have the latest version of all documents. © 2010 Innovation and Business Industry Skills Council Ltd Participant Workbook page 18

6. Templates used for validation Form the basis for discussion, which may include: how well an assessment tool addresses the unit experiences of using the tool design of the tool acceptable evidence experiences and feedback from candidates forms of reasonable adjustment evaluation of tools against principles of assessment and rules of evidence comparability of the evidence collected by different assessors. © 2010 Innovation and Business Industry Skills Council Ltd

7. Validation self-assessment © 2010 Innovation and Business Industry Skills Council Ltd National Quality Council validation self-assessment as an assessment tool. Go to: <http://www.nqc.tvetaustralia.com.au>.

8. The next step You should now: explore validation templates and think about how they can be used identify an assessment validation process that you can participate in determine the role you will have in the validation process continue with Assessment Task 1 © 2010 Innovation and Business Industry Skills Council Ltd