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TAFE NSW International Centre
for VET Teaching and Learning
TAFE NSW RPL Colloquium 2007:
More possibilities, better results
In association with TAFE NSW – COAG RPL
Professional Development Project
Thursday 7 June 2007
Swissotel Sydney
ICVET RPL Project Manager – Janet Hewson
Ph 02 9244 5111  Fax 02 9244 5925  Email [email protected]
Level 4, 1 Oxford Street, DARLINGHURST NSW 2010
Colloquium 2007 opening
Pam Christie
Director
Sydney Institute - TAFE NSW
Chair, TAFE NSW RPL Steering Committee
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OVERVIEW
1. Why so much interest in RPL?
2. How is TAFE NSW performing?
3. What’s happening to support the
expansion of RPL in TAFE NSW?
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Why RPL?
• Skill shortages
• Fast track skilling solutions
• Focus on mature age
• Need to up skill existing workforce
• Cost and efficiency pressures
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Response from Governments
• “All RTOs in receipt of public funds to
provide …. a quick and simple process to
recognise their skills” COAG 2006
• COAG Commonwealth/State program to
build capacity and drive good practice $6.6m matched funds over three years
• NSW State Plan targets and NSW
Government election commitment to
expand opportunities for RPL
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TAFE NSW PERFORMANCE
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TAFE NSW PERFORMANCE
• RPL for TAFE NSW was 3% of all module
enrolment outcomes in 2005
• From 2007, RPL attracts 100% ASH
• Policies and procedures for reporting
recognition updated
• SIS enhanced to capture and record RPL
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TAFE NSW RPL INITIATIVES
BVET PROJECTS
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Skills testing pilots – develop RPL tools
and pilot skills testing in 10 trades
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Prove it!
– CLI managed site
– TAFE intranet version
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TAFE NSW RPL INITIATIVES
COAG PROJECTS
1. Virtual RPL Support Centre – on line
advisory and referral service
2. Skills Express – industry partnering
Construction, Plumbing, Electrical,
Automotive and Hairdressing
3. RPL Professional Development
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CHALLENGES
• RPL is not quick and simple
• RPL requires good assessment practices
• RPL candidates need to be well informed
• RPL needs to be personalised
• RPL needs to be offered with gap training
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Opening address
Dr Pauline Hart
Associate Director
Manufacturing, Engineering, Construction
and Transport Curriculum Centre
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Program overview and introductions
Maret Staron
Manager
TAFE NSW International Centre for VET
Teaching and Learning (ICVET)
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What kind of web do we want to spin today?
Key speakers
TAFE Board
Spark topics
Conversations
Networking
Follow up
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Conversations
Conversations are learning experiences – a way
of sharing and creating knowledge together
Knowledge resides in people (and only flows
through technology). We create learning
environments, but the chief tool that makes
learning happen is conversation (Alan Webber)
We learn in conversation, in relationship
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Strategic conversations
―Core assumption: you need to be involved in
diagnosis and generating solutions (Schein,
1978)
―A collective creation of propositions and
finding strategy (2nd Road, 2006)
―Goal: making new horizons, sharing
understanding through thoughtful, collective
conversation
―The questions focus our search for solutions
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Key contacts
NSW COAG RPL PD Project Partnership:
Illawarra Institute:
– Bernadette Ioannou, Project Manager
– Charlie Higgs, R/Recognition Coordinator
Hunter Institute
– Jill Albrecht, Recognition Coordinator
ICVET
– Janet Hewson, Chief Education Officer
– Lynne Stallard, A/Principle Education Officer
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Writers
– Deborah Willmer, R/Teaching and Learning Manager,
SWSI
– Keith Greenough, R/Assistant Director, Learning
Pathways and ICT, Strategic Business Unit, SI
– Kate Appleton, Teacher, Community Services, Granville,
SWSI
– Anne Walsh, Teacher Coordinator, NCI
– Norma Smith, Contractor
– Wendy Wyatt, ICVET Website Manager
– Janet Hewson, CEO, ICVET
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Watch out for
– Alex Hays, NSW LearnScope Project Officer,
ICVET, podcasting
– Robyn Jay, NSW LearnScope Manager, photos
plus
– Deanne Bulmer, Administrative Officer, ICVET
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What sparks your interest in
RPL?
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“Spark Topic” – 3 P’s - Pedagogy
Generating new opportunities in the
engine room
Anne Walsh
Senior Education Officer
Teaching and Learning Development
North Coast Institute
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RPL
more possibilities – better results
Making RPL a valid process Beyond the Portfolio
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My aim today:
is to stimulate discussion about
the validity of the recognition
process as it is generally
understood and applied by the
everyday VET practitioner.
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What is validity?
A valid assessment is one that assesses
only what it claims to assess.
For example – written tests are only valid if
there is an expectation in the unit of
competence that the candidate has
literacy skills.
(This could be indicated in the key
competencies.)
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If the candidate requires particular
skills in order to undertake the
assessment,
and those skills are not included in
the competency being assessed,
the assessment process is not
necessarily valid.
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In a typical RPL the candidate:
• is given information about the specific
evidence requirements
• is advised on ‘typical’ items of evidence
goes off and collects evidence
• collates evidence into a portfolio of some
sort
• maps portfolio to unit(s) and elements
• presents evidence for assessment
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Skills required?
Ability to
• interpret a unit of competence and specific
evidence requirements
• differentiate between ‘good’ and ‘bad’
evidence
• collect, collate, map and present evidence
in the form the assessor expects
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Remember Benjamin Bloom?
The skills required to
compile a portfolio
are higher order.
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Lower level skills required…
• Remember what they have done in the
past
• Make sense of the requirements of the
unit/elements and specific evidence
• Apply that information in the context of
their own experiences
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Higher level skills required…
• Analyse their experiences to determine
the relationship to the evidence
requirements and what evidence they may
be able to extract
• Evaluate the evidence in terms of it’s
relevance and appropriateness
• Construct a portfolio/narrative to explain
their artefacts
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Is this fair?
Depends on the:
• nature of the unit of competence
• nominated level of the key competencies
• AQF level of the unit
• context in which the competence is being
applied
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The ‘simple’ answer
• Apply the principles of assessment to
recognition
• Think beyond the ‘portfolio’
• Provide structured support for the
candidate
All of which have resource implications.
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My question for you to consider
If you agree there are validity
issues associated with the
assessment process,
what are you going to do about it?
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Networking
How to make the most of your networks –
‘intensional’ networks and relationships
Cliff Trood
Chief Education Officer
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and Learning (ICVET)
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networking
Its about building and sharing
what you know
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networks:
two ideas of interest
the Strength of Weak Ties
Grannovetter, 1973
‘intensional’ Networks
Nardi, Whittaker & Schwarz, 2002
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Ties
Strong
Weak
regular time spent
Lots
low / none
emotional strength
High
low
closeness
High
low
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Weak Ties
Weak ties are bridges that allow new knowledge
and practice to travel between networks
you
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‘intensional’ netWORKs
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changing work environments
personal networks
deliberate construction
continuous maintenance
activation to do the job
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One of the most important
resources we share with each
other is access to those in
our networks.
The other is our knowledge
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Networking Opportunity
Refreshments
Ballroom Lobby
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“Spark topic” – 3 P’s - Process
Harnessing the power of process
Jill Albrecht
COAG RPL PD project team
Hunter Institute
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Harnessing the power of process
The 10 top tips for processing
Recognition
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Tip 1: Recognition
Information on the
Internet
• www.tafensw.edu.au
• Course Student Assessment Guides
• Student Recognition Guide for each
module
• Course Credit Estimate Report on Eservices
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Tip 2: Educational
Capability website
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DET Intranet site – TAFE and Community Education
TAFE Strategy and Business Operations
Teaching and Learning – Recognition
Contains Embedded Testamur Policy and other policies
PowerPoint presentation for use in staff training
Links to HSC/TAFE website and other relevant sites
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Tip 3: Everyone’s
Guide to Recognition
– NEW EDITION
• Found on Educational Capability website
• New chapters on processing Recognition
• Hyperlinks to relevant websites and for easy
navigation
• Frequently asked questions covering nearly
every possible Recognition scenario
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Tip 4: 2007 Guide to
Enrolment and Enrolment
Adjustment forms
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Found on Educational Capability website
Updated annually
Hyperlinked for easy navigation
Detailed instructions on processing all
types of forms
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Tip 5: SCIS
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What If Student Record Summaries
SCIENRSRS
GOLD 2 for What If report
Shows all possible entitlements based on
previous TAFE studies
• Complements the E-services report
available to students
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Tip 6: CIDO
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Standard exemption entries
Advanced Standing Arrangements
Course Student Assessment Guides
Unit Guides
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Tip 7: Learning and
Assessment Strategy
Form
A useful new resource for Recognition
recording?
May need to be customised, or perhaps a new
version for Recognition assessment could be
added?
Available on CIDO for every course
Full course structure shown with unit codes and
names
Codes for types of evidence presented
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Tip 8: HSC/TAFE and TAFE/Uni Credit
Transfer websites
• Link to the sites from the TAFE NSW website
• HSC/TAFE site shows all entitlements for
Standard exemptions based on HSC study
• Shows possible units that students may gain
credit for, based on VET study in school
• High rate of use in schools
• TAFE/Uni site links to Universities with credit
transfer websites
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Tip 9: Tools for processing
Overseas study
• Country Education Profiles – AEI website
www.dest.gov.au/noosr (Australian Education
International)
• Obtain a password from TAFE International Education
Unit – Debra Pinkerton
• 9217 4574
• Multicultural Education Unit booklets map overseas
school and university qualifications to Australian levels
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Tip 10: Curriculum Centre
Gateway sites and your
colleagues
• Many new Recognition resources under
construction
• Funded by ESC, BVET and COAG
• Will be in hard copy and electronic formats
• SCIS Help Desk
• Progressions and Completions Unit (David
Hooker’s unit)
• Your campus support staff
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Conclusion
• Prior learning is a gift, but sometimes
we treat it as a burden”
• Adapted from Ratna Omidvar, Executive Director, Maytree
Foundation
• Recognizing Learning Conference
• Halifax, Nova Scotia, October 2001
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Strategic Conversation on key questions
Q1 How can we reconcile the tension between quality assessment
and the economic imperative – “quick and simple” and “increased
volume?” (COAG, OECD, 2007)
Facilitators:
Jill Albrecht – Yellow group
Cliff Trood – Blue group
Q2 How can we facilitate new training/business opportunities by
seeing RPL as a diagnostic tool as opposed to just a ‘must do’
policy?
Facilitators:
Lynne Stallard – Pink group
Charlie Higgs – Purple group
Q3 How can we reconcile the tensions between
individualised/personalised assessment and the economies of
scale in the classroom or large groups?
Facilitators: Bernadette Ioannou – Green group
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Greg Madden – Red group
Networking Opportunities
Lunch in the Ballroom Lobby
Poster Session:
Curriculum Centres
COAG RPL PD Project
Bruce Blackshaw HT Network
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“Spark topic” – 3 P’s - Product
Working with Industry
Bernadette Ioannou
Project Manager - COAG RPL PD
Project
Recognition Excellence and Learning (REAL) Project
Illawarra Institute – TAFE NSW
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Product – Working with Industry
Community Services and Health Industry
Skills Council (ISC)
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Strategy in skilling the workforce
Why is it important?
Key to best practice
Expertise of assessors
Best practice model
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Product – Working with Industry
TAFE NSW – Appliance Industry Association
Certificate II in Electrotechnology
Servicing (Appliance – Refrigeration)
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Aim of programme
Benefits
Development of RPL process and tools
Outcomes
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Product – Working with Industry
Skilling the Existing Workforce Project
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National project focus
Duration
Stakeholders
Enabling strategies
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Strategic Conversation on key questions
Q4 How can we reconcile a teacher’s role as an educator as
opposed to that of an RPL assessor – how do you take the
learning out of assessment?
Facilitators:
Jill Albrecht – Yellow group
Cliff Trood – Blue group
Q5 What are the responsibilities for the teacher’s role in the RPL
process as opposed to those of the student?
Facilitators: Lynne Stallard – Pink group
Charlie Higgs – Purple group
Q6 How do we reconcile the tension between the
implicit/intuitive/tacit nature of professional judgements and meet
our audit requirements for explicit, valid and accountable data?”
Facilitators: Bernadette Ioannou – Green group
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Greg Madden – Red group
Sustaining the momentum
Reinforcing processes
―Self facilitated “like” groups – Institutes (x10), Curriculum
Centre (x1), Statewide Units (x1)
―Where to from here? How do I share this with others?
“A learning oriented strategy aims to produce self-sustaining change in a way
that continually accelerates its own growth and development. In systems
terms, it operates as a “virtuous reinforcing cycle”. (Senge, 1999)
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Key address
Melanie O’Connor
Managing Director
The Academy Network Pty Ltd
NSW TAFE Commission Board
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Closing Remarks
Kim Fillingham
General Manager
TAFE NSW Business
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CLOSE
ICVET website – eZine August
2007
–Today’s PowerPoint
–Resources/stories from the Colloquium
RPL Online forums (Adobe Breeze
sessions)
Wed 25 July and Thur 23 August
Please leave evaluation sheets
Refreshments are available in the lobby
Thank you
and have a safe journey home
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