- Video Insight
Validation Schedules Explained: Managing Scope Changes, Delivery Modes & Assessment Tools
- 2 mins
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You have your validation schedule and you’ve got your planned activities over your five-year cycle. But that doesn’t mean that your validation schedule shouldn’t be changing whenever your scope changes, if you have a new offering that you put on. Because if you think about it, it’s not just the training product on your scope. So if you’ve got a unit of competency on a BSB CMM301 and you deliver that in a face-to-face environment in a particular way, but then you’ve got a different offering that you offer that is 100% online, you’ve got a different set of assessment tools. Well, you need to validate that separately because those assessment tools are different. So it’s each set of tools that you have for units of competency that would be going on your validation schedule. And if you get a new client and you’re going to go and contextualise it, that gets added to your validation schedule. So it would be something that you’re updating continuously.
And then you’ve got this evidence to show these are all the things that we’ve done. And you’ve got your validation schedule of your pre-assessment validation. And then you’ve got your evidence of your post-assessment validation samples. So your student work that has been completed and marked as competent. And you’ve got your validation of that sample of work. So we need to make sure that we’re doing all of those things. And if you’re not, that’s something that you need to then include into your practices, because it’s much more specific in the new standards around making sure every assessment tool is fit for purpose.
Key Points
- Your validation schedule is a living document. It must be updated continuously, not left static across the five-year cycle.
- Different delivery modes need separate validation. The same unit delivered face-to-face and online uses different assessment tools, and each set must be validated individually.
- New clients and contextualisation trigger new entries. Every time tools are contextualised for a new client, they go on the schedule as a separate item.
- The new standards demand stronger evidence. Auditors expect documented proof that every assessment tool is fit for purpose, covering both pre- and post-assessment validation.