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:

·         Do you know your validation deadlines?

·         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?

·         Do you have a validation policy and procedure document?

·         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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