Hi. Im new to this new award and am wondering what is the best way to go about assessing. With the old award I would begin with an obs and get the learner started on gathering evidence for other units. Would I begin with a knowledge only unit perhaps and cross reference it. Does anyone have any plans/ ideas they can share, even if it is for adult award??? Thanks.

Hello,
After a good induction I leave learners with a knowledge only unit to complete, just make sure it's the 'easiest' one and that they have the knowledge to cover it, they should if you've chosen the right unit and they have completed their Induction in workplace, which they should have. Then on first visit do really good holistic observation. Then, judging on quality of the unit they should have completed you can either give them another knowledge only unit to complete or set them work based on knowledge parts of one or two of units you have covered with obs.
You will notice there are a lot of 'shoulds' in this, in reality they probably wont do it, wont have had a proper Induction in workplace and expect you to do most of the work!
I give learners copies of the standards with the performance parts circled, tell them those parts will be covered in observations, the rest they will be expected to provide information on, either in question and answer sessions, (use a voice recorder) or by them providing written evidence.
Good luck
Steadysue

Thats great, thanks for that. Just wanted some pointers and you have been v helpful!! Cheers.