Assessment Requirements for CHCEDS044 Support development of student research skills

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Assessment Requirements for CHCEDS044 Support development of student research skills

Modification History

Release 1. CHCEDS044 Support development of student research skills supersedes and is equivalent to CHCEDS015 Support development of student research skills.

Performance Evidence

Evidence of the ability to complete tasks outlined in elements and performance criteria of this unit in the context of the job role, and:

provide skills support for student research for three different information requirements, that collectively involve all of the following:

use of multiple sources

use of two different referencing tools

two different final format requirements for researched information.

Knowledge Evidence

Demonstrated knowledge required to complete the tasks outlined in elements and performance criteria of this unit:

organisational policies and procedures for:

assisting students in research projects

accessing external information

features of the organisation’s resource centre and information management process

sources for answering common student requests

techniques and tools for developing student research skills

features and use of different bibliographic tools

online research skills:

use of search engines and key words

how to identify credible sources

how to distinguish between relevant and irrelevant information

how to summarise information

copyright, moral rights and intellectual property requirements and appropriate referencing.

Assessment Conditions

Skills must be demonstrated in the workplace:

provision of support with research skills must be directly observed by the assessor on at least one occasion

remaining performance evidence may be collected through authenticated third-party reports

observation and third-party reports must be supplemented by other forms of evidence.

Interactions with students must be supervised by a teacher or other educational professional.

Assessment must ensure access to:

information requirements

information technology for research

referencing tools or systems

organisational policies and procedures for research activities

students in a school

colleagues for guidance and collaboration.

Assessors must satisfy the Standards for Registered Training Organisations requirements for assessors.

Links

Companion Volume implementation guides are found in VETNet - https://vetnet.gov.au/Pages/TrainingDocs.aspx?q=5e0c25cc-3d9d-4b43-80d3-bd22cc4f1e53