The Certificate IV in Assessment and Workplace Training: Understanding Learners and Learning

Michele Simons, Roger Harris, Erica Smith

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Abstract

This report explores how learners, and the process of learning, were presented within a sample of courses that led to Certificate IV in Assessment and Workplace Training. This course was highly regarded by the graduates surveyed and found to offer a sound basis about vocational education and training (VET) teaching and learning. Nevertheless, the study suggests that approaches to learning that are promoted need to draw more extensively on processes which empower learners rather than seeing them as individuals with 'deficits' to be addressed. Ongoing debate and critical reflection among VET practitioners, as well as practitioner-led systematic inquiry into teaching and learning, are needed to promote the development of workplace-centred and attribute-focused learning in VET. This will be valuable as the new Training and Assessment Training Package qualifications are introduced.
Original languageEnglish
Place of PublicationAdelaide, S. Aust.
PublisherNCVER
Number of pages44
ISBN (Print)1921169451
Publication statusPublished - 2006

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