Webinar Recording: Validating Online Assessments

Join this informative and practical Deep Dive Webinar to learn how mapping learning resources and assessments can be used to provide an overview of the skills and knowledge contained in each unit of competency.

This webinar invites you to consider options for frontloading quality assurance for assessment tools. Drawing on quality expectations set down in the Standards for RTOs (2015), we investigate the design and documentation requirements for best practice assessment tools.

This webinar brings good news. With the guidance of a facilitator experienced in systematic validation, we clarify the expectations. The webinar introduces established understandings about efficient and effective validation processes that deliver both quality outcomes and compliance outputs (including documentation).

Assessment validation is a review process used to confirm that an RTO’s assessment system can and is consistently producing valid assessment judgements. This webinar delivers a pragmatic approach to conducting effective assessment validation. You will learn methods and techniques for validating assessment tools.

Designed for educators and administrators alike, this session will shed light on the Validation Framework and practices for maintaining compliance by having adequate systems and processes.

The VDC Professional Learning Fellowship offers an immersive, blended learning experience designed for VET educators from Australia-wide educational settings. This comprehensive program will build upon your teaching practice and leadership skills, helping you make a meaningful impact on the VET sector.

Through this fellowship, participants will receive targeted professional development, enabling them to contribute significantly to the growth of the VET teaching profession. By strengthening teaching outcomes, the fellowship ultimately benefits students, industry, and the broader community.

The VET Development Centre has a proud 21-year tradition of providing one of Australia’s leading teaching & learning conferences for Vocational Education and Training. The VET National Teaching & Learning Conference 2026 will be held in-person at the Melbourne Convention & Exhibition Centre on the 13 & 14 of August.

This deep dive webinar supports RTOs quality and compliance by clearly unpacking assessment validation requirements. It outlines a risk‑based approach to validation frequency, unit selection and sample sizes, and explains key risks. Participants will gain clear guidance on storing and retrieving assessment records as well as evidence to support sound assessment decisions and continuous improvement.

Follow Alan Maguire in discovering the changes under the Training Package Organising Framework - focusing on new formats for qualifications, skill sets and units of competency. It compares old and new unit structures helping RTOs understand the transition, reduce confusion, and apply the updates confidently in training and assessment practice across the VET sector.

Join Chris Enright in this interactive session that explores real-world challenges, clarify interpretations of the Outcome Standards, and test approaches with an expert lens.

Validation Excellence is a hands-on in-person masterclass for VET practitioners that reframes validation from compliance to quality improvement. Participants will learn the end-to-end validation cycle, risk-based scheduling, team selection, and sampling. Through exercises and a mock validation, they build skills to evaluate assessments, document findings, and drive continuous improvement in RTO outcomes.