What is Workplace Assessment?
As a mandatory part of various Cengage Education courses, students are required to undertake workplace training. Workplace training and assessment is the gathering and evaluation of evidence during normal work activities at different intervals in order to determine whether a required element within a competency has been achieved. Workplace assessment will entail a combination of recognition, observation, questioning, discussion and third party validation.
All students are required to provide the following forms to verify they have successfully demonstrated the practical component of each of the required competency outcomes:
- Pre-Assessment Interview form
- Workplace Assessment form
- Record of Outcome form
- Workplace Agreement form
A qualified manager/supervisor must sign the forms as validation.
Benefits of Workplace Assessment
- An increase in employment opportunities
- Practical experience in the industry
- Opportunity to develop practical job skills
- Insight into particular job roles and responsibilities
- Able to apply theory learnt into practice
What Does ‘Qualified’ Manager/Supervisor Mean?
Training packages provide a range of options for meeting assessment requirements. Assessments can be undertaken in a variety of workplace contexts by partnerships involving the Registered Training Organisation (RTO) assessor and technical experts (manager/supervisor).
According to the National Assessment Guidelines, it is recommended that the workplace manager/supervisor is able to:
- Demonstrate current knowledge of the industry, industry practices and the job or role against which performance is being assessed.
- Communicate and liaise, where appropriate, with the Workplace Coordinator/Cengage Education (TED) Assessor throughout the assessment process.
- Use agreed practices to gather and record evidence for the TED Assessor to use in making a valid judgement on competency.
The Role of the Workplace Coordinator
The Workplace Coordinator role is designed to assist and support students and managers/supervisors going through the workplace assessment process.
This is achieved by:
- Making calls to enrolled students as well as workplace supervisors; to coordinate and assist with the work place component
- Answering calls from enrolled students and workplace supervisors and handling their enquiries
- Building ongoing relationships with students and workplace supervisors by maintaining a regular contact with these students and supervisors on a monthly/quarterly basis or as requested by the student
- Provide quality support, advice and encouragement to students and work place supervisors
What’s the next step?
Step 1: Workplace User Guide
The student and manager/supervisor should read through the Workplace User Guide (736kb).
Step 2: Workplace Forms
Familiarise yourself with the Workplace Forms found at the end of each learner guide.
Step 3: Contact with Workplace Coordinator
When the student is confident about completing the workplace assessment, the student is required to:
- Contact the Workplace Coordinator at Cengage Education to