Mastering Vocational Assessments: A Practical Guide Using 6 Simple Questions (Paperback or Softback)

She’s back by popular demand! VET assessment compliance expert Vanessa McCarthy returns with Mastering Vocational Assessments, the highly anticipated follow-up to 101 Assessment Tips!

Whether you're new to vocational assessment or looking to deepen your understanding of assessment content creation, structure and design for validation, this guide is for you.

Mastering Vocational Assessments: A Practical Guide Using 6 Simple Questions answers the fundamental questions of Why, Who, What, When, Where and How to assess. Building on the success of 101 Assessment Tips and the continuous growth of the Prickly2Sweet™ system, author and VET expert Vanessa McCarthy addresses readers' and users' desire for more in-depth guidance.

Vanessa leverages over two decades of experience in assessment review, validation and design to provide practical insights and answers. This guide goes beyond assessment compliance standards, offering innovative concepts and suggestions for quality assessment.

Mastering Vocational Assessments answers the key questions and helps develop strategies for sustainable VET assessment in a constantly evolving industry.

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.' Dr Sandra Gallagher, Director

'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.' Caitlin Carruthers, FS Alliance

'101 Assessment Tips comes at a crucial time as artificial intelligence dominates discussion about what is real and what is not in assessment. It offers useful insights and practical guidance.' Alana Harris, PhD

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)️. These com-prise the first online assessment review system that maps and gap analyses assessment re-sources.

Dr Juliette Lachemeier is the managing editor of The Erudite Pen Independent Publishing. She has edited and published many fiction and nonfiction books that have become #1 bestsellers.