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AgExcel Tutor Conference 2013
After TROQ
What will the new world look like?
TROQ – Targeted Review of Qualifications.
• Review of all current qualifications on the framework,
national and local ones.
• Attempting to reduce the number, duplication and
confusion between qualifications
• All current qualifications to disappear over next 3 – 4
years and be replaced by new ones.
New qualifications will ensure that:
• Qualifications are relevant and fit-for-purpose
• Skills, knowledge and competencies of graduates from
each qualification are clear, especially to employers
• There are clear pathways to future qualifications for
learners/employers
• There are clear employment pathways
• There is a more consistent approach to quality assurance
TROQ process
Governance group formed to oversee process
Working groups formed for 6 different industries
Pastoral
Pork/Poultry/Apiculture
Wool harvesting
Equine
Water
Rural servicing
Extensive consultation done with industry as to their
needs, roles within the industry and skills, knowledge
and attributes needed for those roles.
TROQ process (cont)
Draft graduate outcomes written and sent out for
consultation.
Graduate outcomes include
Strategic purpose statement
Graduate profiles
Education pathway
Employment pathway
Proposed qualifications sent to NZQA for preapproval (approval to develop).
TROQ process (cont)
Quals returned from NZQA with feedback, and
conditions for further development
Based on this feedback, proposed final qualification
documents were developed and discussed at
Pastoral working group meeting
After this meeting, and a further round of
consultation, the qualification documents were
finalised and submitted to NZQA for approval in July
TRoQ – Where are we at?
New qualifications – What is different?
• Made up of high level graduate outcomes. What a
graduate can “know/do/be”.
• Flexible programmes for delivery
• Based around job roles in the workplace
• Not necessarily unit standard based
How will it work?
• Qualifications are collaboratively developed by all
stakeholders, based on industry needs
• Providers and ITO’s develop Learning programmes
(providers) or Training programmes (ITO’s) towards the
qualification
• Programmes will have to be approved by NZQA and have
to show how learners will achieve the Qualification
Qualification examples
Assessment of Graduate Outcomes.
• Assessment should be conducted in a holistic
manner
• Assessing learner’s capability in overall tasks, not
the sum of the parts
• Not focussing on detail but more task oriented
• Use naturally occurring evidence wherever possible
• What is important is the application of skills and
knowledge to actual workplace tasks and activities
Capability assessment diamond
©Primary ITO (2013)
Application
CAPABILITY
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Axis
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CAPABILITY
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Skills
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Knowledge
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Technical
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Competence
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Behavioural
Competence
Confidence
CAPABILITY
Self-reflection
What-if scenarios
Decision making process
Tracey Shepherd/Fred Hardy, 2013
CAPABILITY