Edition 58, July 2008

Comments sought on TAA discussion paper

Innovation and Business Skills Australia (IBSA), the national industry skills council covering education, recently commissioned a discussion paper to consider issues concerning the Training and Assessment Training Package (TAA04).

Prepared by education consultant David McRae, IBSA asked for the following questions to be addressed:

  • Given the centrality of the TAA Certificate IV qualification to the vocational education and training (VET) quality assurance system (AQTF 2007) and its role as a basic training qualification in VET, is the qualification design appropriate to these purposes?
  • Does the design and content of the core units of competency provide an adequate basis for training and assessing in the VET sector?
  • Is there an appropriate balance between units concerned with delivery and those concerned with assessment?
  • Is there an appropriate balance between core and elective units?
  • Does the qualification cover an appropriate range of knowledge and skills for training and assessing in the VET sector?
  • Given the overriding need for a standards based approach to VET qualifications, is the competency based approach the best way of identifying and describing the standards for training and assessing in the VET sector?

The paper analysed the qualification in a close and "non-political" sense and has provided a technical solution to what Mr McRae identified as the major design flaws. The paper also puts forward a solution to overcoming those flaws.

IBSA expects the discussion paper to provide a foundation for a discussion of the qualification.

For more information and to download the discussion paper visit www.ibsa.org.au/content/currentprojects.html

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