Assessment Policy

Assessment Principles

Assessment is the process of gathering and judging evidence in order to decide whether has achieved a standard or objective and it is a competency-based assessment. The competency-based assessment is the method of gathering and judging evidence in order to decide whether you achieved a standard of competency.

The four principles of assessment are followed in assessment of each Student's evidence of competence:

• Validity
• Reliability
• Flexibility
• Fairness

1. Validity

Assessment against the unit(s) of competency covers the broad range of skills and knowledge essential to effective performance. Judgment of competence is based on evidence of Student performance that is aligned to the unit/s of competency.

2. Reliability

Evidence presented for assessment is consistently interpreted and assessment results are comparable irrespective of the assessor conducting the assessment.

3. Fairness

The individual Student’s needs are considered in the assessment process. Where ever appropriate, reasonable adjustments are applied by the ATMC to take into account the individual Student’s needs.

4. Flexibility

Assessment is flexible to the individual Student by reflecting the Student’s needs and assessing competencies held by the Student no matter how or where they have been acquired.

Rules of Evidence

The learner’s work must demonstrate the rules of evidence:

• Valid – The assessment task must cover the required skills and knowledge
• Sufficient – it must be enough to satisfy the competency
• Current – skills and knowledge must be up to date
• Authentic – it must be the learner’s own work and supporting documents must be genuine.

Submission Instructions

Students must achieve satisfactory ratings on all tasks and all completed assessment tasks must be submitted in form hard copy or email to your trainer/assessor.

• Students need to submit the answers of assessment tasks by using software suite like Microsoft Office either in digital form or printed form or handwritten.
• At each submission of your assessment, the Student must declare that the work submitted is his/her own and has not been copied.
• You must ensure that you have attempted and completed all assessment tasks in this Student Assessment Workbook prior to submitting for assessing.

Grading System

• Satisfactory (S) result: The Student’s submitted work satisfies the learning requirements and competency standards for the Task.
• Not Satisfactory (NS) result: The Student’s submitted work does not demonstrate the understanding of competency standards in the Task.
• Competent (C) result: S result for all required assessment Tasks.
• Not Yet Competent (NYC) result: If any of the Tasks in unit is NS. Student will receive written feedback and be required to re-submit.

Re-assessment

If the result of your Unit Assessment is “Not yet Competent (NYC)”, you will be given an opportunity for reassessment. Learners are to be provided with detailed verbal and written feedback to assist them to identify the gaps in their knowledge and skills to be addressed through further training. ATMC provides additional training and re-assessment as required at no additional cost to the learner.