Australian College of Trade

Assessments

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Guidelines:

Participation:

Due to the essential role that class activities play in the assessment of your competencies, full participation within each and every class is a crucial element of satisfactory academic progress. Without sufficient participation in class, your trainer/assessor will not be able to assess you in the numerous occasions and in the multiple ways required to deem you as competent.

Delivery:

Assessment will be centred on class activities and is competency based. Competency Based Assessment requires you to demonstrate particular skills, or groups of skills, on numerous occasions and in multiple ways. Each class will have its own unique assessment tasks which must be completed within the scheduled class time to demonstrate your competence.
These tasks will be delivered through the following methods:

Methods:

• Practical Demonstrations, including the preparation of particular dishes to specific criteria, serving customers and any other relevant practical requirements as per the hospitality training package. Practical assessment will be undertaken in ACOT's fully operational training facilities and within the busy operational commercial environment of the fully embedded Thornbury Theatre which is one of the leading entertainment and function venues in Victoria.
• Assignments, prepared in a variety of media such as MS Word, MS Excel and MS PowerPoint.
• Research Tasks such as market surveys and web based research.
• In Class Activities such as role plays and guided discussions.
• Class Presentations.
• Field trips and Excursions.

Grading:

Assessments will be evaluated on specific criteria and deemed as either 'S' Satisfactory or 'NS' Not Satisfactory. Each completed Unit of Competency will be graded as either 'C' Competent or 'NYC' Not Yet Competent.   Top

Conduct during examinations

Students:

1. A student found guilty of breaching any of the following rules of conduct, during knowledge tests/ examinations, in a way that may compromise, or defeat, the purposes of the assessment, may be found guilty of Academic Dishonesty, and subject to penalties, ranging from mark reduction, zero marks, or failure in the unit for that study period, to exclusion or expulsion from the College.
2. Student identification - students must bring into the examination room and keep displayed their current Student Identification Card.
3. Students are to comply with directions - a student will comply with all directions given by the trainer/assessor/examiner / examination supervisor and all instructions to candidates set out on the examination materials, or displayed in the examination room.
4. A student’s behaviour must not disturb, distract, or adversely affect, any other student.
5. Entering and leaving an examination room. Students who are given permission to enter, or leave, an examination room, will comply with any conditions relating to the giving of the permission. Students will not be given permission to leave an examination room until half the prescribed working time has elapsed, or during the last 15 minutes of the prescribed working time, unless there are exceptional circumstances.
6. Any student that arrives late, but before half the prescribed working time for the examination has elapsed, will normally be permitted to take the examination, but, no additional working time will be allowed, unless there are exceptional circumstances.
7. Unauthorised material shall not be brought into the examination room.
8. Students may bring into an examination room only those materials approved for the unit under examination, and indicated as such on the knowledge test/examination paper.
9. All other materials are expressly prohibited unless they are brought into the knowledge test/examination room with the permission of the examination supervisor, and deposited by the student directly upon entering the examination room, at a place stipulated by the aforementioned examination supervisor. It is inconsequential, for this rule, that the unauthorized material is not related to the unit being tested/examined.
10. Students are not to remove any papers.
11. A student shall not remove, from the examination room, any worked scripts, or other paper provided for use during the course of the knowledge test/examination (other than the question papers supplied, where this is authorized by the knowledge test/examination supervisor) or other material, which is the property of the College.
12. Students shall not communicate with others during a knowledge test/examination, except the knowledge test/examination, except the trainer/assessor/examiner / examination supervisor Top

Examiner's obligations and responsibilities:

1. In most, if not all cases, the examiner will be the trainer/assessor of the cohort of students being assessed under test/examination conditions.
2. An examiner must either address announcements concerning clarification of, or amendment to, an examination paper, to the entire group of students, or write them on a blackboard/whiteboard.
3. An examiner should specify on the test/examination paper whether students may use any type of portable calculator, or non-programmable calculators only.
4. Checking text books and any other materials permitted for use by examinees. Where restrictions apply to the documents and materials, which students are permitted to use in an examination, it is essential that a lecturer, experienced in the unit under examination, be present in the examination area. The trainer/assessor will assist the examination supervisor to
5. Check students’ documents and make determinations on the legitimacy, or otherwise, of notes contained therein. Top

Academic Honesty - College Policy

1. A student shall not engage in any activity that involves attempting to receive a grade by means other than honest effort, for example:
2. A student shall not, knowingly, procure, provide, or accept, any materials that contain questions, or answers, to any test or examination, or assignment, to be given at a subsequent time.
3. A student shall not complete, in part, or in total, any test or examination, or assignment for another person.
4. A student shall not, knowingly, allow any examination, or assignment, to be completed, in part, or in total, for himself, or herself, by another person.
5. A student shall not plagiarise, or copy, the work of another person and submit it as his or her, own work.
6. A student shall not employ unauthorized aids when undertaking course work.
7. A student shall not, without proper authorization, alter graded class assignments, or examinations, and then re-submit them for re-grading.
8. A student shall not provide their assignments, in part, or in total, to any other student in current or future classes of the course. A student shall not procure, or accept, assignments from current, or prior, classes of the course.
9. Collaborating with other students to develop, complete, or correct, course work, is limited to activities explicitly authorized by the class instructor. Use of other students’ course work, in part, or in total, to develop, complete, or correct, course work is unauthorized.
10. Each student is responsible for knowing and abiding by the College’s policies on academic and student conduct. Any student found to be in breach of the College’s Academic Honesty, or Student Conduct policies will be given a grade of “NYC” in the course, and will be reported to Department of Immigration and Border Protection (DIBP). Committing acts that violate the Student Conduct Policies, which result in course disruption, are liable for suspension, or dismissal, from the College. Top

Submission of results

1. Results must be authorised by each trainer, and should be submitted progressively to the Director of Studies. Results must be received within ten working days.
   
2. Recommended grades and/or marks (%) should be submitted on the pro-forma provided by the Director of Studies.

Release of results

1. Under normal circumstances, results will be released within twenty working days of the published study period end date. Results will be mailed to the students’ home address, or can be collected in person from the College. Photo identification will be required on collection. If the academic record is to be requested, or collected, by a person other than the student, a power of attorney, or letter of authorization, is required, as is photo identification.
   
2. Where a student fails to meet a debt, or obligation, to the College, the student’s academic results will be withheld for completed units that have not been paid for. Top

Re-assessment of Unsatisfactorily Completed Units

Where a student fails to successfully complete a unit of competency there is a possibility of undertaking ‘catch up’ classes and assessment. These classes are generally conducted on a Saturday morning and incur an additional cost of A$200 per unit. If a student is required to take extra units to complete a course of study at the end of their scheduled program, and the remaining units do not constitute a full-time load, the student may complete the units with a less than full-time load. This applies to students who are required to repeat units of study; however, ACOT will not allow students to repeat any unit more than once.

Awards

On successful completion of a course of study, students must fill out an Application for Award form and/or a Statement of Attainment request to receive their certificate.

The application forms are available from administration at reception. Student needs to ensure that all details are filled correctly. Administration will acknowledge receipt of the application form and a copy will be given to students.

Before issuing any certificate, Administration will check to ensure that students have no outstanding financial liabilities to the College. The status of the course /unit completion will be checked by administration, verified by the Director of Studies and authorized by the institute CEO. The award and/or statement of attainment will be printed and signed by the CEO.

The award and/or statement of attainment will then be dispatched as per the preferred mode selected on the application.

Printable forms: Re-assessment Request (TA0025) - Qualifications Application (ES0022)

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