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BECOMING A SKILLS ACTIVE REGISTERED ASSESSOR

If you are interested in becoming a Skills Active Assessor please contact your Skills Active Relationship Manager.  Please also continue reading as there is important information below regarding this process.

Role of a Skills Active Registered Assessor
  • Fully informing trainees of the nature of the assessment to be used and the standards of performance expected (setting an assessment plan).
  • Ensuring trainees understand and agree to the assessment methods.
  • Assess trainees against workplace and national (unit) standards using an externally moderated resource.
  • Give clear and constructive feedback to trainees.
  • Report credit to Skills Active using Skills Active's credit reporting processes.
  • Participate in moderation checks.
  • Retain clear and accurate candidate records including credit reporting forms for a minimum of 2 years.

Applying to be a Skills Active Registered Assessor

Assessor Processes

Assessor Registration Flowchart
Assessor Support Processes
Assessor Training Course Processes
Assessor Currency
Assessor De-registration / Deactivation
Exception Handling Processes
Assessor Reactivation

Please read the ‘Skills Active Registered Assessor Information Pack and Application Guide’. This will help you to complete the Skills Active Registered Assessor & Workshop Application Form and give you all the information you need to know about becoming an assessor.  You will also need to ensure that you meet the Minimum Assessor Requirements (MARs).

Active Assessor Courses

As a result of changes to the content of the two-day workshop, we now need to send material to participants for them to work through prior to the course.  This means we must receive registration forms for the course 3 weeks prior to the course commencing.

The dates for the 2010 Active Assessor Courses are as below: 

DATES LOCATION VENUE CLOSING DATE FOR REGISTRATION
February 24th & 25th Hawera TBC February 1st
March 8th & 9th Hamilton TBC February 12th
March 18th & 19th Christchurch TBC March 1st
May 3rd & 4th Wellington TBC April 8th
May 13th & 14th South Island TBC April 21st
June 22nd & 23rd Auckland TBC June 1st

Active Assessor Refresher Courses

We are introducing refresher courses during 2010 for current registered Skills Active Assessors and attendance will be made compulsory.
Proposed dates and months are shown below. Please note that these are tentative only and are subject to change. Additional courses may also be arranged if necessary.

DATES LOCATION VENUE
February 12th Auckland (1 of 2) Parnell Trust
February 23rd New Plymouth Burgess House
March 11th Tauranga The Tauranga Club
March 18th Dunedin **CANCELLED** TBC
April 20th Hamilton Windy Ridge Cafe / Bar / Functions Venue
April 23rd Wellington Agriculture ITO
April 27th Napier Pettigrew Green Arena
April 29th Westport Solid Energy Centre
May 6th Nelson Monaco Apartments
May 13th Queenstown Lakes Leisure
May 20th Methven Brinkley Resort
June 3rd Gore Gore Multisports Complex
June 10th Auckland (2 of 2) Parnell Trust
June 17th Rotorua Heritage Rotorua
July 20th Wellington Karori Recreation Centre
July 22nd Christchurch The Chateau on the Park

We are also looking at holding a course in Palmerston North. If you are interested in this course please contact Shelley Cooper; shelley@skillsactive.org.nz or your Relationship Manager

Cost

There is no cost for the Active Assessor Course but candidates will be required to pay for their own accommodation and transport to the venue.

In the process of becoming a registered assessor you will achieve unit standard 4098 ‘Use standards to assess candidate performance’.

Agenda

Click here to download a copy of the Assessor Refresher Course Agenda. Please note that all Assessor Refresher Courses run for half a day, please refer to the agenda for exact timings.

Current Holders of Unit Standard 4098

If you have recently achieved 4098 via an outside provider and are actively assessing then please click here for more information.

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