Level 3 Award in Assessing Competence in the work environment

The aim of this unit is to assess the candidate assessor’s performance in assessing
occupational competence in an individual’s work environment. There must be evidence to cover all of the assessment methods listed in the unit. As a minimum, there must be performance
evidence for the following assessment methods:

- observation of performance in the work environment
- examining products of work
- questioning the learner

Simulation is not allowed.

Other forms of evidence will be acceptable for the remaining assessment methods:

- discussing with the learner
- use of others (witness testimony)
- looking at learner statements
- recognising prior learning

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’ occupational competence (four assessments in total). This occupational
competence must not be in assessment itself. In other words, evidence for this unit must not
come from assessing another candidate assessor who in turn is assessing someone else.