What’s in your Assessment Validation Checklist?
We’ve all heard the saying, “you can’t manage what you don’t
measure.” On the flip side, “if you can’t measure it, you can’t improve it.”
Whether you have an internal process for validating your assessments or rely on
peer-reviewed journals, including key stakeholders, to determine accuracy and
merit, having a framework in place is imperative for ensuring that assessments
from multiple sources are credible.
An Assessment Validation Checklist should be a key tool in
any successful assessment
strategy. It will identify any gaps in your assessment process and
highlight key areas of improvement.
If you’ve ever worked in the academic fields, chances are you
had to fill out an assessment validation checklist. An assessment or evaluation
is the formal process of determining or judging a learner’s abilities,
characteristics, aptitudes, skills, or fitness for a specific purpose.
The purpose of this checklist is to ensure that the test
being developed and used has been reviewed thoroughly with an objective eye.
Your assessment validation checklist should cover the main
areas that you want to address, while also ensuring it includes a diverse
selection of questions to ensure you assess candidates from a variety of
angles.
As an assessor, you’re tasked with ensuring assessment
processes are effective, valid, and reliable. While there is no
one-size-fits-all checklist, there are several commonalities among the
checklists of top assessors.
Here’s a simple assessment validation checklist to see if you
are on the right track:
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Do you know your validation deadlines?
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Are you using risk assessment to determine the
focus of your validation? - This helps you determine which training products to
prioritise in your validation exercises. Clause 1.10 - For the purposes of
clause 1.9, each training product is validated at least once every five years,
with at least 50 per cent of products validated within the first three years of
each five-year cycle, taking into account the relative risks of all of the
training products on the RTO’s
scope of registration, including those risks identified by the VET regulator.
·
Are your validators qualified to conduct the
validation?
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Do you have a validation policy and procedure
document?
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Is your assessment validation process
compliant?
The Assessment Validation Checklist is a tool that will help you
to assess the quality of an assessment. This checklist is adaptable to all
types of assessments and can be used as a tool to validate your assessment
process and to provide evidence for your chosen standards, learning objectives
or competencies.
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