VET Know-How

People studying for their TAE40116 or TAE40122 Certificate IV in Training and Assessment qualification or a TAE Skill Set may find useful information from this website.

A series of Know-How articles are being written over the next few weeks and months. The following are the start of a bank of practical information about how to complete activities and tasks as a trainer or assessor working for a Registered Training Organisation (RTO).

The VET Framework

How to search the training.gov.au website
How to use training packages to meet a client need
How to develop a training and assessment strategy
How to interpret and contextualise a competency standard
How to determine the requirements for competency-based assessment
How to identify integrated assessment opportunities
How to stay up to date with changes to training packages

Competency-based assessment

How to plan the assessment approach
How to design and develop an assessment tool
How to design and develop an RPL assessment tool
How to develop an assessment instrument to gather knowledge evidence
How to assess competence
How to conduct assessment validation

Competency-based training design

How to estimate total training duration
How to determine training program content
How to use blocks of time to build a training program
How to incorporate foundation skills in vocational education and training

Competency-based training delivery

How to identify the training need
How to write training objectives
How to select and sequence content
How to develop a task breakdown
How to develop a training session plan
How to prepare for training delivery
How to evaluate training

Language, literacy, and numeracy

Design and develop basic documents

A guide to designing and developing basic documents
A guide to document design principles
A guide to document style and formatting
A guide to copyright compliance

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