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This publication was developed by the Department to provide registered training organisations (RTOs) with an up-to-date, streamlined guide to recognition of prior learning (RPL) within vocational education and training (VET) assessment strategies. The purpose of the guide is to: define the nature and role of RPL in the VET context; demonstrate RPL’s relationship to the other forms of assessment carried out by RTOs; show how RPL relates to assessment of competency as described in training packages; promote the use of a range of alternative methods of task based assessment and pathways to achieving recognition of skills; and provide developers with guidelines for the development of quality, holistic assessment tools. The publication also contains some templates which may prove useful when adapted to meet RTO assessment requirements.