Under the Australian VET Framework, and the AQTF, assessments used by Registered Training Organisations (RTOs) must compliant with the "Principles of Assessments: fair, Flexible, reliable and valid".

Trainers and RTO managers asked me with singular frequency: "How can we ensure our assessment tools are reliable and valid? Do you have a template for that?" I decide to write the following notes to put some light on the above.

Testing the reliability of an assessment is finding how much error is included in the evidence. In other words, finding the degree to which an assessment tool produces stable and consistent results.

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The Australian VET industry consists of a great variety of providers. Many small and medium organisations have a high degree of technical specialisation and service niche markets. These small and medium sized RTOs generally have professionals with many years of industry and vocational experience and passion for delivering high quality training and assessment. Now these RTOs are experiencing a substantial increase in compliance costs.

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