Skills Development Programme

Design and Develop

Credits: 10

Duration: 1 day

NQF Level: 6

SAQA ID: 115755

Mode of Delivery: Hybrid – online or in-person

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Regular Price: R7505

Early Bird Price: R3750

In the South African National Qualifications Framework (NQF) environment, the quality of your assessment is the bedrock of your institution’s credibility. This course empowers you to design and develop outcomes-based assessments that facilitate consistent, reliable, and unbiased evaluations of learning.

You won’t just learn the theory; you will gain the practical skills to build assessment activities and comprehensive guides that address cognitive, psychomotor, and affective skills. Whether you are designing for Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL) or new learning programs, this course provides the toolkit to ensure your assessments are cost-effective, culturally sensitive, and legally robust.

Who Should Attend?

This program is essential for professionals dedicated to high-quality education, training, and development (ETD), specifically:

Assessment Designers looking to sharpen their creative and technical skills.
ETD Practitioners moving into senior roles or specialized quality assurance functions.
Subject Matter Experts tasked with creating assessment instruments for their specific fields.
HR Development Managers overseeing internal competency frameworks.

What You Will Learn (Learning Outcomes)

Our curriculum covers the full lifecycle of assessment creation, ensuring you can:

Master Design Principles: Understand the philosophy of outcomes-based assessment and how it compares to traditional methods.
Strategic Design: Create assessment plans that account for cost-effectiveness, candidate special needs, and environmental safety.
Activity Development: Develop diverse assessment tasks—from oral items to simulations—that produce valid and authentic evidence.
Guide Creation: Produce professional assessment guides containing everything an assessor needs to conduct fair and reliable evaluations.
Evaluation & Improvement: Review and critique your designs to ensure they meet the highest standards of quality assurance.

Entry Requirements

To thrive in this advanced program, participants should:

Have already achieved the unit standard for Conducting Outcomes-Based Assessment (NLRD 115753) or equivalent.
Be competent in their specific field of learning or have access to a Subject Matter Expert.
Be able to analyze and interpret NQF standards and outcomes.

Assessment & Certification

Your competence will be measured through practical application:

You will be required to design assessments totaling at least 8 credits.
You will produce at least three different assessment activities using three distinct methods.
Final assessment and moderation are overseen by the relevant ETQA to ensure your certification carries national weight.
Successful candidates will demonstrate the ability to plan for contingencies, communicate requirements effectively in writing, and solve complex assessment problems.

Career Opportunities

Mastering assessment design opens doors to strategic roles within the South African training landscape:

Quality Assurance Manager: Overseeing the integrity of institutional assessment systems.
Curriculum & Assessment Developer: Shaping the way learning programs are delivered and measured.
Independent ETD Consultant: Providing expert design services to accredited providers and corporate training departments.

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