PURPOSE
This unit standard is for people who design and develop assessments to facilitate consistent, credible, reliable, fair, and unbiased assessments of learning outcomes. The outcomes may be defined in a range of documents including but not limited to unit standards, exit level outcomes, assessment standards, curriculum statements and qualifications. This unit standard will contribute towards the achievement of a variety of qualifications particularly within the field of Education Training and Development Practices and Human Resource Development.
At the end of the training session learners will be able to:
- Demonstrate understanding of design principles of outcomes-based assessment
- Design outcomes-based assessments
- Develop assessment activities
- Develop assessment guides, and
- Evaluate assessment designs and guides.
LEARNING ASSUMPTIONS
The credit calculation is based on the assumption that those entering programmes to learn towards this unit standard:
- Have already achieved unit standard NLRD 115753: Conduct outcomes-based assessment, or equivalent
- Are competent in the relevant field in which they are designing assessments, or have access to subject matter experts, and
- Are able to analyse and interpret the relevant outcomes (or standards)
HOW YOU WILL LEARN
The programme methodology includes facilitator presentations, readings, individual activities, group discussions, and skill application exercises.
HOW YOU WILL BE ASSESSED
This programme has been aligned to registered unit standards. You will be assessed against the outcomes of the unit standards by completing a knowledge assignment that covers the essential embedded knowledge stipulated in the unit standards.
