Skills in Making Assessment Decision

When making your judgment about competency, be clear about the reasons for reaching your decision. These reasons will form the basis of your feedback to the candidate.

If you have difficulty making your decision based on evidence that the candidate has provided, this may be due to the type of evidence you decided on. If you cannot make a decision about competency you should ask the candidate to submit further evidence. If after submission you can now make decision, do so, but recommend for the revision of the assessment activities.

Skills in Making Assessment Decision

After gathering the evidence, the assessor needs to make a judgment of competence. The assessor must have a good knowledge of observing the candidate and keep notes of unusual conditions or situation during  the  entire conduct of assessment.

1. The assessor must have a good knowledge of how to collect appropriate evidence and match compatibility to the elements, performance criteria, range of variables and evidence guide in the relevant units of competency.
2. The assessor must have a good knowledge of judging the evidence in terms of the four dimensions of competency – task skills, task management skills, contingency management skills and job/ role environment skills.
3. The assessor must have a good knowledge of judging the evidence in terms of the rules of evidence – task skills, task management skills, contingency management skills and job/ role • environment skills.
4. The assessor must have a good knowledge in analyzing a piece of evidence to support other pieces of evidence and help to build a candidates “picture” of competent performance.