Copy and paste from the following data to produce each assessment task. Write these in plain English and spell out how, when and where the task is to be carried out, under what conditions, and what resources are needed. Include guidelines about how well the candidate has to perform a task for it to be judged satisfactory.
Required skills
analytical skills to:
analyse and comprehend interdependencies between data fields
examine and define structure requirements for data
communication skills to:
liaise with developers on programming matters
seek requirements and information from business and technical experts
literacy skills to:
read and interpret program specifications developed by business and technical experts
read and interpret technical documentation
write a basic documentation
numeracy skills to identify order and position of element in a sequence, such as first and last
problem-solving skills to apply basic debugging techniques in the context of software and application development
research skills to:
locate and interrogate complex and varied sources of information
source information from available sources
technical skills to:
develop a small scale application
perform basic operations of a computer system.
Required knowledge
basic knowledge of:
hierarchy and tree structure
programming concept and language
world wide web (WWW)
data modelling
hypertext markup language (HTML)
information system features
source characteristics.
The range statement relates to the unit of competency as a whole. It allows for different work environments and situations that may affect performance. Bold italicised wording, if used in the performance criteria, is detailed below. Essential operating conditions that may be present with training and assessment (depending on the work situation, needs of the candidate, accessibility of the item, and local industry and regional contexts) may also be included.
Structure must include: | child element root element sub-child element. |
Syntax must include these rules: | case sensitive closing tag entity reference proper nesting quoted attribute values single-root element. |
Validation tools may include: | document type definition (DTD) validating parsers XML schema XSD schema validator. |
Styling tools may include: | cascading style sheets (CSS) eXtensible stylesheet language (XSL) eXtensible stylesheet language transformations (XSLT). |
XML parser application programming interface may include: | data binding document object model (DOM) language-specific API, such as XML API in .NET, JAXP in Java, and E4X in ActionScript simple API for XML (SAX) XMLPULL. |
Platform elements may include: | simple object access protocol (SOAP) universal description, discovery and integration (UDDI) web services description language (WSDL). |
Language may include: | Java Net languages PHP Python. |
Copy and paste from the following performance criteria to create an observation checklist for each task. When you have finished writing your assessment tool every one of these must have been addressed, preferably several times in a variety of contexts. To ensure this occurs download the assessment matrix for the unit; enter each assessment task as a column header and place check marks against each performance criteria that task addresses.
Observation Checklist