School RTOs must maintain a five-year validation plan that includes details of all qualifications the school RTO delivers. (Validation plan templates are available in the VET app in the QCAA Portal.)
To complete and/or update a validation plan:
- identify the qualifications to be validated
- identify the type of evidence-gathering and validation approach your school RTO will use, e.g. observation, direct questioning, product review, third-party reporting, or a combination of these methods
- engage a validator or team of validators (as outlined in Section 9 of the TAS) who
- has/have skills and qualifications for the qualification you are validating
- meet the requirements of Item 2 or Item 5 of Schedule 1 of the Standards
- are not currently delivering the qualification at your school
- give the validator/s the tools they will need to validate the qualification
- the TAS
- the assessment activity, including
- context and conditions
- the task/s the students will need to complete
- details of the evidence the RTO will gather from, and use to assess, students
- mapping documents
- student profiles
- analyse, take in, and document any relevant validator recommendations
- update the validation plan.
- Last reviewed:
- 8 May 2020
- Last updated:
- 26 August 2019
