The TCE’s ‘Everyday Adult’ Standards
REGIONAL SEMINARS
Audience: TCE Co-ordinators, teachers of TQA level 2 courses in which a ‘SA/Pass’ award or better is considered evidence of a learner having reached the TCE’s everyday adult skills sets’ standards, and other interested educators.
Why?: At regional seminars held earlier this year attendees requested that the TQA hold follow-up sessions to discuss the nature of the TCE’s everyday adult skills sets’ standards and the implications for assessment and quality assurance in these courses.
What?: In this seminar the TQA will discuss with providers the nature of the TCE’s everyday adult skills sets’ standards:
- what are the ‘everyday adult’ standards?
- how these standards are reflected in relevant Essential Skills courses
- how the Australian Core Skills Framework (ACSF) illustrates these standards and can be used by teachers to help their planning of teaching and assessment.
For TQA level 2 courses in which a ‘SA/Pass’ award or better is accepted as evidence of a learner having reached the TCE’s requirements for everyday adult standards in mathematics and reading and writing, reference to the ideas and concepts in the Australian Core Skills Framework (ACSF) level 3 will help teachers to understand the standards, plan their teaching and assess students’ skills.
In the seminar we will also look at:
- the relationship between performance features of ACSF level 3 and the learning outcomes and standards specified in courses
- how the performance features and sample activities of ACSF level 3 can be used to help teachers develop and evaluate assessment instruments
- ways in which the standards illustrated by ACSF level 3 can be used to inform final (summative) assessment judgements.
Additionally there will be some discussion about quality assurance requirement that providers maintain archived samples of individual student’s work sufficient to illustrate the borderline between that judged as ‘Pass’ or ‘not pass/no award’. This has been a requirement in some courses in the past and is now a requirement in TQA level 2 courses in which a ‘SA/Pass’ award or better is considered evidence of a learner having reached an everyday adult standard where an audit-style quality assurance method is used.
Relief/travel for attendance is not funded by the TQA. To assist with planning for these meetings I ask that you please complete the form on the following page and return it to (as a Word attachment) or fax it to 03-62240175 by Friday 30 September 2011.
With thanks,
Dr Mike Jenkins
Liaison and Development Office, TQA
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Suggested dates for the sessions are:
- North-West – Tuesday 18 Oct
- Northern – Thursday 20 October
- Southern – Thursday 27 Oct
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