School RTOs should maintain a five-year validation plan that includes details of all training products on the school RTO’s scope of registration. (Validation plan guide and templates are available in the VET app in the QCAA Portal.)
To complete and/or update a validation plan:
- identify the training product 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 who
- has one of required credentials for validation of assessment
- industry competencies, skills and knowledge relevant to the training product
- current industry skills relevant to the training product
- has not solely designed or delivered the training and assessment of this training product
- give the validator/s the assessment tools they will need to validate the training product
- 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, use and document how outcomes have been used to inform changes to assessment tools
- update the validation plan.
- Last reviewed:
- 1 July 2025
- Last updated:
- 26 August 2019
