101 Assessment Tips: Enhancing Understanding of Vocational Quality

Have you ever wanted to ask a question about vocational assessment but have felt embarrassed because you think you should already know the answer? Or have you asked a question before but weren't sure if you understood the response?
Vocational education, assessment and compliance expert Vanessa McCarthy has once been where you are, and so have so many other people she has spoken to over the years.

At the time she wished she'd had a handy easy-tip guide that she could quickly check to remind herself in those uncertain moments. Instead of waiting for one, Vanessa decided that she would write one herself.

101 Assessment Tips doesn't just regurgitate quality assurance standards. It covers the basic questions and provides, embraces and encourages innovative thoughts, concepts and suggestions on quality assessment.

Vanessa McCarthy is the director and creator of Valid8ed™️ and Prickly2sweet™️, and her book shares and celebrates those ah-ha moments in RTO assessment and compliance. She hopes her easy-tip guide inspires you to improve your assessments. Or start to question and review what your organisation considers to be best practice of assessment, assessment systems and compliance strategies for sustainable assessment in Vocational Education Training (VET).

PRAISE FOR VANESSA MCCARTHY
'101 Assessment Tips is a useful supporting tool for a compliance team conducting an internal audit. It is a great resource to help teams review the work according to the Standards for RTOs. 101 Assessment Tips covers all the relevant requirements in an easy-to-understand layout. It enables the user to find a specific area they may want to refresh their knowledge on.' Dr Sandra Gallagher, Director of Eureka Learning Network Pty Ltd, DIT, MICT, BA, AdvDip Management
'This is a great read and a great resource to help with the understanding of assessment quality. It is in plain English and gets rid of the grey of resource development, making it green and gold. 101 tips, it is more than that, it is full of knowledge from an industry professional that knows their stuff and has broken it down in a way that anyone can understand. They don't need to be a resources developer or compliance manager to understand it. The short chapters make for easy reading and even the busiest person won't have excuses to not read it.' Caitlin Carruthers, Office and Compliance Manager, FS Alliance

Vanessa McCarthy has over 20 years' experience in the vocational education and training sector within a wide variety of compliance roles, where she specialises in assessment compliance. Being committed to compliance innovation and system improvement in VET, Vanessa created Valid8ed(TM)️ and Prickly2sweet(TM)️.

Dr Juliette Lachemeier is the managing editor of The Erudite Pen, an independent publishing business that turns writing dreams into a published reality.