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Determining which Assessment Strategy to Adopt
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Factors to be Considered in Determining which Assessment Strategy to Adopt
- The planned combination of learning outcomes which has a defined purpose, and which is intended to provide qualifying learners with applied competence and a basis for further learning.
- Value added to the qualifying learner in terms of enrichment of the person through the provision of status, recognition, credentials and licensing; enhancement of marketability and employability and opening up access routes to additional education and training.
- Benefits to society and the economy through enhancing citizenship, increasing social and economic productivity, providing specifically skilled people as well as transforming and redressing legalities of inequity.
- Compliance with the objectives of the NQF.
- Inclusion of both specific and critical cross-field outcomes that promote lifelong learning.
- International comparability.
- Integrated assessment appropriately incorporated to ensure that the purpose of the qualification is achieved.
- A range of assessment methods and instruments such as portfolios, simulations, workplace observations, written and oral examination in both formative and summative assessments are selected.
- Indication whether the qualification may be achieved in whole or part through the recognition of prior learning that may have been achieved through formal, non-formal and informal learning and work experience.
In addition to these, the design of assessment should also take into account, about learners:
- Skills
- Status
- Recognition
- Credentials
- Marketability
- Employability
- Access to further learning
- The equivalence of skills, status, recognition, etc. with learners elsewhere who have acquired the same or similar qualifications
- Formative and summative assessments
- The range of assessment methods and instruments
- The integration of roles, actions, skills, behaviours, etc. as specified in the learning outcomes, and whether the integration of these is evidence of understanding the purpose of the applied competence
- Where applicable, recognition of learning already in place and the method(s) of ascertaining that such learning is in place