All assessments must meet all the following principles, regardless of the method of assessment used to evidence learners’ attainment.
All assessments must produce outcomes that are:
- valid: the assessment evidence meets all assessment criteria and all learning outcomes
- authentic: all the work is the learner’s own
- reliable: assessment evidence is consistent and generates outcomes that would be replicated were the assessment repeated
- current: assessment evidence is up-to-date
- sufficient: enough work is available to justify the credit value, and to enable a consistent and reliable judgement about the learner’s achievement
- comparable: all assessment evidence is comparable in standard between assessments within a unit/qualification, and between learners of the same level
- manageable: all assessment places reasonable demands on all learners
- fair and minimise bias: assessments are fair to all learners irrespective of their characteristics (for example, age, gender, etc)
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