Project Summary
Good practice in the development and implementation
of skill standards-based qualifications
The Project
Karen Vaughan and Andrew Kear
The Good Practice in Skill Standards-Based Qualifications Development and Implementation project was designed to build system capability for working with skill standards. The project supports standard setting bodies (SSBs) to develop and quality assure skill standards-based qualifications. It also supports tertiary education providers and industry training organisations (ITOs) to implement (deliver and assess) skill standards-based qualifications through programmes of learning.
The main project output is a toolkit made up of six guides. They equip those in qualifications development and implementation roles with:
- an understanding of the system and its wider context, and how this shapes what skill standards are and should do;
- good practice principles that should guide the work that uses skill standards; and
- examples that interpret and illustrate those principles to show ‘what good looks like’.
The toolkit represents a leadership opportunity to promote good practice and alignment between industry and the vocational education system. While the toolkit is based on work with the Construction and Infrastructure sectors, its principles-based approach makes it equally appliable to qualifications development and implementation in any sector.
