Unit standard 115755
NQF 6 – 10 Credits
Why do I need this workshop?
You’ve designed a beautiful learning programme. You’re confident it will work. Now the next task faces you – how can you best assess learners’ knowledge and skills?
The Assessment Tool Design workshop teaches you how to design accurate, effective and fair assessment tools. It also teaches you creative ways to make assessment interesting. After all, assessment is another opportunity to learn – grab it!
How will I learn?
This is a hands-on workshop built around your need. You bring along your unit standard or curriculum and work through each assessment step. We explore creative tools and techniques and you try them out on your material. You work with your learning team and the facilitator to test each new tool.
What are my learning options?
We offer this workshop on three platforms:
- Online workshop (2 days)
- Face-to-face in-house workshop (2 days)
- One-on-one coached sessions (2 hour segments at times that suit you)
What are the learning modules and outcomes?
1- How much assessment is enough?
• Explain Kirkpatrick’s Evaluation Hierarchy
• Place assessments into context
2 – Identify learner needs
• Identify useful information about your learners
• Construct activities and tools to assess learner needs
3 – Create glorious tools for formative assessment
• Construct formative assessment tools
4 – Unpack the unit standard
• Differentiate between norm-based, competency-based and outcomes-based assessment
• Analyse a unit standard
5 – Assessment methods and evidence – an overview
• Explain the meaning of VACS and assessment evidence
6 – Investigate the impact of learning environment upon assessment
• Identify the impact of different learning environments and their effect upon assessment design
7 – Create an assessment design
• Create an assessment design for assessing a unit standard
8 – Design knowledge assessment activities
• Develop appropriate tools to assess knowledge
• Develop a knowledge assessment grid
9 – Design simple performance assessment tools and activities
• Develop performance checklists and VACS reports
• Design a performance assessment activity
10 – RPL assessment
• Explain the special functioning of RPL assessment
• Design an RPL assessment
11 – Develop an assessment guide
• Describe the process for developing an assessment guide
• Develop the assessment guides for your unit standard
12 – Evaluate assessment design and guides
• Describe a process to evaluate designs and guides
What is the cost?
R5 775 (excl VAT) per delegate.
This includes tuition, course material, ongoing coaching, assessment against the unit standard, certification and registration with the ETDP SETA.
How do I book?
Complete and submit our registration form.