Recognition of prior learning

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Recognition of prior learning

• Prior Learning Centre

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Are you stressed by FAIS?...
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Objectives

• Prior Learning Centre
• The new educational scene
• How qualifications look
• The RPL - process
• RPL assessors and advisors
• Different forms of assessment and the principles
  of Portfolio of evidence
• Unfair barriers
• FAIS qualification and unit standards
• Timeframe

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Program
Personal values and career planning
New legislation and National Qualifications
Framework
Qualifications structure and unit standards
Principles of RPL and assessment
Portfolio
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Unit standards

• Investigate work opportunities in order to make a
  personal career/employment decision
• Apply knowledge of self in order to make a life
  decision
• Facilitate the preparation and presentation of
  evidence for assessment

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Module 1Career developmentpp 8-10
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Self-awareness

• Values Goals
• Self Development
• Johari Window
• SWOT
• Career planning
• Self Assessment

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Module 2 Overview of Legislationpp11 - 14
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Macro environment in S.A.

• The SA government has introduced a system of
  people development
• SA Qualifications Act
• National Qualifications Framework
• Unit standards
• Workplace assessors
• Skills Development Act
• Skills Levy Workplace Skills Plan skills
  audits
• SETAs ETQAs
• Registration of qualifications providers
• Learnerships
• Employment Equity Act

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New terminology

• Lecturer - facilitator
• Student learner
• Examinator - assessor
• Syllabus unit standards
• Exam assessment formative and summative
• M3 National qualification levels NQF 1 -8
• Method of learning is not prescribed not
  important how you have learned important that
  you are capable of demonstrating competence
• RPL I can do the work, but dont have the
  qualification to prove it no need to re-learn
  knowledge already acquired

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The NQF
Dept of Education
Dept of Labour
8 (HETC) 7 Higher 6 Education 5
National Skills Strategy
SA Qualifications Authority (SAQA) p13
4 (FETC) 3 Further 2 Education
National Skills Authority (NSA)
1 (GETC) General Education ABET Schools
NSBs p15 National Standard Bodies
SETAs Sectoral Education Training Authority
ETQAs Education Training Quality Assurers
SGBs Standard Generating Bodies
SARS
Providers
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National Qualifications Framework (NQF)

• 8 levels
• Register of national qualifications
• Learners receive credits for specific outcomes
  and retain or transfer credits
• Important emphasis on quality Assessors
  Moderators - Verifiers
• Transparency
• Transfer of credits
• National qualifications name of institute not
  important outcomes important must be
  nationally registered

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Quality control

• Following need to be registered
• Unit standards
• Qualifications
• Providers
• Facilitators
• Assessors
• Course material must be aligned to unit standards
• Evaluation process need to be monitored and
  controlled as well as fair, valid and reliable

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Qualifications structure and unit standards
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How qualifications are structured
Minimum 120 credits
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Credits

• Unit standards are linked to credits
• Credit x10 notional hours
• Qualification at least 120 credits - certificate
• FAIS get certain credits for courses completed
  Fit Proper, Multimark 1,2 en 3
• 2 years to get 60 credits

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Structure of qualifications
Qualification (120 minimum credits )
Skills program
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Unit standards
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Specific outcomes
Assessment criteria
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Example of a unit standard (US)
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Assessment of qualifications according to
General all qualifications
Specific to a qualification
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Critical Cross-Field Outcomes (CCFOs)

• These Critical Cross-Field Outcomes are found in
  most South African Unit Standards (where they are
  relevant)
• 1. Communicating effectively
• 2. Working in a Team
• 3. Organising and Managing yourself
• 4. Collecting, analysing, organising and
  evaluating information
• 5. Using Science and Technology effectively
• 6. Identifying and solving problems
• 7. Understanding the world as a set of related
  systems
• 8. Being culturally and aesthetically sensitive
  across a range of social contexts

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Module 3RPL recognition of prior learningpp
26 - 35
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Definition of RPL

• Recognition of prior learning means the
  comparison of the previous learning and
  experience of a learner howsoever obtained
  against the learning outcomes required for a
  specified qualification, and the acceptance for
  purposes of qualification of that which meets the
  requirements.

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The RPL Process

• Life long learning
• Knowledge and skills assessment for competence in
  the world of work
• Non-formal learning
• Principles of RPL

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Role-players

• The candidate (you)
• RPL Adviser
• Assessor
• Moderator
• Verifier
• Line manager
• Witness
• Interpreter

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Module 5 Assessmentpp 36 - 43
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Principles of Assessment

• Fairness All candidates must be treated the
  same
• Validity tools must measure what they says they
  measure
• Reliability assessment must be consistent
• Practicability assessment must take into
  account the resources

Fairness Validity Reliability
Practicability Credibility
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Rights of learners

• Special needs identify barriers and adjust
  tools (illiterate, handicapped, dyslexia, etc.)
• To be assessed in own language
• Application of the NQF principles and assessment
  principles
• Credible collection of evidence
• Use of various assessment tools
• Fair moderation and verification
• Appeal

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Module 6Portfolio
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What is a Portfolio?

• file containing all your evidence
• Cross referenced to the unit standards
• Consists of exercises, activities, projects and
  knowledge tests to support and prove your
  competence
• Complete given activities and put it in your PoE
• Template to assist you in compiling portfolio

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Types of evidence

• Direct most valid primary source of evidence
• Direct observation
• Questioning
• Product and output evaluation
• Indirect evidence from other source
• Team outputs
• Work done at earlier stage
• Performance appraisals
• Training records
• Testimonials
• Reviews and recommendations
• Certificates and qualifications
• Medals
• Customer/client ratings
• Historical least valid supplements assessment
  process
• Projects
• Portfolios
• Video/audio-taped/photographed performance
• Documentary evidence completed by learner

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Your options

• You have to do the knowledge questionnaire
• PLUS
• The assignment
• OR
• The assignment Naturally occurring evidence

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Criteria for a good Portfolio

• The aim is to produce a portfolio that
• Provides a clear structure that people can follow
• Cross-references each piece of evidence
• Produces sufficient evidence against the
  competencies being claimed
• Can be supplemented with more evidence as time
  goes by
• Can be stored in a safe and secure manner at all
  times

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Next steps.
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Steps in the process.

• Letter from Santam with your credits on the
  intraweb under My Life for Santam employees
• Brokers phone Rashieda Arendse [phone] or
  email request Rashieda.Arendse_at_santam.co.za
• 2. Tick off the credits that you have against
  the unit standards
• 3. Delete the sections in die knowledge
  questionnaire that you dont have to do
• 4. Do the same with the assignment unless the
  unit standard is integrated with other unit
  standards
• 5. Complete the knowledge questionnaire first

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• 6. Do the assignment begin with the most
  difficult or longest one first and leave the
  easiest ones for last helps with the motivation
• 7. Complete the evidence summary sheets with
  the page references.
• 8. Complete the portfolio checklist and RPL
  evaluation form
• 9. The PoE template, evidence summary sheets,
  knowledge questionnaire and assignment will be
  available on the intraweb and emailed to the
  brokers.

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Last thought

• Be positive
• Remember the benefit of completing the
  qualification now get perspective 2-6months vs
  2 years
• Thoughts create action!