Elements and Performance Criteria
- Clarify role and responsibilities in the assessment process
- Discuss and confirm purpose of assessment with relevant people
- Discuss and confirm benchmarks for assessment with qualified assessor
- Access, read and clarify assessment plan with qualified assessor
- Discuss and agree with qualified assessor the specific responsibilities in gathering evidence and types of evidence to be gathered
- Confirm organisational arrangements for evidence gathering
- Access and confirm relevant assessment system policies and procedures; organisational, legal and ethical requirements; and other relevant advice on assessment
- Clarify nominated assessment methods and tools for collecting evidence with qualified assessor, to ensure that procedures to be followed and instruments to be used are clear
- Discuss and confirm with relevant people assessment context, including candidate's characteristics and any need for reasonable adjustments
- Confirm and arrange resource requirements in consultation with relevant people
- Collect evidence in accordance with the assessment plan
- Explain assessment process to candidate, including the different responsibilities of the parties involved, and refer any candidate issues or concerns to qualified assessor prior to undertaking assessment activities
- Use assessment tools to gather quality evidence within available time and resources, according to organisational, legal and ethical requirements
- Record and report findings
- Organise and provide evidence to the qualified assessor in a format suitable for analysis according to assessment system policies and procedures
- Actively seek feedback from the qualified assessor on whether evidence-gathering activities meet the principles of assessment and whether evidence collected meets the rules of evidence
- Document areas for improvement in collecting evidence, for future assessment activities