VET in schools: strengthening delivery and assessment outcomes

The National Quality Council (NQC) funded a consortium led by Victoria University to design and implement 11 interactive sessions across each state and territory. The aim of the sessions was to communicate outcomes of the NQC's current work on assessment to schools involved in the delivery of [vocational education and training] VET qualifications recognised under the [Australian Quality Framework] AQF. This included schools that were either school-based [registered training organisations] RTOs and/or those schools who had partnership and/or auspicing arrangements with other RTOs. It was...  [+] Show more

The National Quality Council (NQC) funded a consortium led by Victoria University to design and implement 11 interactive sessions across each state and territory. The aim of the sessions was to communicate outcomes of the NQC's current work on assessment to schools involved in the delivery of [vocational education and training] VET qualifications recognised under the [Australian Quality Framework] AQF. This included schools that were either school-based [registered training organisations] RTOs and/or those schools who had partnership and/or auspicing arrangements with other RTOs. It was also expressed by the NQC that participation in the workshops was to be limited to school-based trainers and assessors delivering VET qualifications recognised under the AQF and not prevocational or similar programs. The relevant findings of the NQC funded projects to be communicated as part of the dissemination strategy included the reports and support materials available from the NQC website in relation to assessment, validation and moderation. The NQC completed these projects in 2009 and 2010 and was interested in ensuring that the key outcomes of the projects were shared with school teachers/assessors delivering nationally recognised VET qualifications; Excerpt from publication.