Assessor Training

Our Assessor Training course helps you achieve Unit Standard 4098, preparing you to conduct workplace assessments with confidence. Ideal for Workplace Assessors, Supervisors, and Trainers, this one-day course covers essential assessment principles, ensuring you meet NZQA requirements and apply best practices when evaluating competency. Gain the expertise to assess and provide valuable feedback, strengthening compliance and workplace performance.

This assessor training course includes a one-day interactive workshop, followed by workplace-based assessment tasks.

The training is fully customised to meet the specific needs of:

• ITO-registered Workplace Assessors
• Workplace Supervisors
• Adult Education Tutors
• Training Consultants
• On-the-Job Trainers

Participants will gain practical skills and knowledge to assess effectively in their workplace, ensuring quality learning outcomes and compliance with industry standards.

Each participant receives a comprehensive study guide and assessments covering all the essential topics listed below.

The bespoke workshop is tailored to focus on the areas most relevant to your organisation, allowing each organisation to select which topics to explore in greater depth.

Topics included:

1. ITO / organisational requirements: The 12 best practice assessment principles

2. WDC/organisational requirements: Best practice assessment principles
3. The New Zealand Qualifications Framework
4. Administrative processes
5. Standard setting bodies
6. Understanding qualifications and unit standards
7. Types of assessment
8. Assessment methods
9. The significance of pre-moderation
10. The assessment process
11. ITO / organisational requirements
12. The 12 best practice assessment principles
13. Using assessment guides
14. Evidence and judgment schedules
15. Making assessment decisions
16. Dealing with tricky situations
17. Recording assessment decisions
18. Providing feedback
19. Administrative processes

Entry Criteria:

All students are required to have a level of written and oral English equivalent to NCEA level 1 (year 11) or IELTS 5.5 or higher, to be eligible to attend our courses. The person responsible for making bookings or authorising attendance on the course must agree to these Terms and Conditions prior to acceptance of their student(s) onto the course. Where a student does not meet our English language requirement a reader/writer must be supplied by the student or the person responsible for authorising the student’s attendance. The reader/writer cannot be another student attending the same course.

Prerequisites

There are no specific prerequisites for this course.

Please bring along your ID - We need to verify the identity of students in attendance, please bring ID with you on the day of training.