Level 3 Award in Assessing Vocationally Related Achievement

The aim of this course is to assess the candidate assessor’s performance in assessing vocational
skills, knowledge and understanding in environments other than the workplace – for example
workshops, classrooms or other training environments. There must be evidence to cover all of
the assessment methods listed in the unit. As a minimum, there must be performance evidence
for at least three of the following assessment methods:

- assessments of the learner in simulated environments
- skills tests
- oral and written questions
- assignments
- projects
- case studies
- recognising prior learning

Simulation is not allowed. Other forms of evidence will be acceptable for the remaining assessment methods. The candidate assessor’s performance evidence must be assessed by observation, examining the products of work and questioning/discussions.

There must be valid, authentic and sufficient evidence for all the assessment criteria. Holistic
assessment is encouraged and one piece of evidence may be used to meet the requirements
of more than one learning outcome or assessment criterion.

There must be evidence of the candidate assessor carrying out at least two assessments of
two learners’ skills, knowledge and understanding (four assessments in total).