Clause 1.6
IIFS will implement a range of strategies for industry engagement and systematically uses the outcome of this industry engagement (refer to Industry Engagement Policy) to ensure the industry relevance of:
• its training and assessment strategies,
 ensuring that the selection of elective units of competency for each qualification are relevant to the job outcomes being addressed within each qualification
• its training assessment practices, resources and tools ;
 ensuring that these reflect current industry requirements
• the current industry skills of IIFS’s trainers and assessors.
 ensuring IIFS’s trainers and assessors possess current industry skills relevant to the
qualification that they are delivering and assessing

Clause 1.8
IIFS’s assessment system, for all qualification on its scope of registration will ensure that IIFS’s assessment practises (including recognition of prior learning as per the Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL) Policy and Procedures:
• complies with the assessment requirements of the relevant training package or VET accredited course; and
• is conducted in accordance with the Principles of Assessment namely

Fairness
 The individual learner’s needs are considered in the assessment process.
 Where appropriate, reasonable adjustments are applied by IIFS taking into account
the individual learner’s needs.
 IIFS informs the learner about the assessment process, and provides learners with the opportunity to contest the result of assessments and be reassessed if necessary.
Flexibility
Assessment is flexible to each individual learner by:
 reflecting the learner’s needs;
 assessing competencies held by the learner no matter how or where they have been acquired; and
 drawing from a range of assessment methods and using those that are appropriate to the
context, the unit of competency and associated assessment requirements, and the individual.
Validity
Any assessment decision by an IIFS assessor is justified, based on the evidence of performance of the individual learner. This requires:
 assessment against the unit(s) of competency and the associated assessment requirements
which covers the broad range of skills and knowledge that are essential to competent performance;
 assessment of knowledge and skills that are integrated with their practical application;
 assessment will be based on evidence that demonstrates that learners could demonstrate
these skills and knowledge in other similar situations; and
 judgement of competence is based on evidence of learner performance that is aligned to the unit/s of competency and associated assessment requirements.
Reliability
Evidence presented for assessment is consistently interpreted and assessment results are comparable irrespective of IIFS’s assessor conducting the assessment.

The Rules of Evidence:
Validity
The assessor is assured that the learner has the skills, knowledge and attributes as described in the unit of competency and associated assessment requirements.
Sufficiency
The assessor is assured that the quality, quantity and relevance of the assessment evidence
enables a judgement to be made of a learner’s competency.
Authenticity

The assessor is assured that the evidence presented for assessment is the learner’s own
work.
Currency
The assessor is assured that the assessment evidence demonstrates current competency. This requires the assessment evidence to be from the present or the very recent past.

The academic standards and integrity of IIFS will be maintained throughout every aspect of the assessment process. IIFS will ensure the integrity of its assessment processes by ensuring that the following principles are adhered to:
a) Trainers will inform students of the assessment requirements and will ensure that they have every opportunity to complete all assessments for all units of competency (within the period that the student is enrolled at IIFS). This clause ensures that:
i. Trainers are using IIFS version controlled documentation of the current training package for a required qualification
ii. All of IIFS’s assessments will cover every required element, performance criteria,
underpinning skills, underpinning knowledge and all critical aspects of assessment
iii. All IIFS students will be provided with timely feedback on the evidence that they have provided in order to be deemed competent

IIFS will safeguard its assessment processes by ensuring that:
a) All Trainers/Assessors employed by IIFS will up-date their Trainer Matrix on an annual basis; which will be maintained on their personal file.
b) During the induction of all IIFS Trainers, they will be provided with Staff Handbook, which will include information on the process of assessment at IIFS
c) All Trainers employed by IIFS will have access to a version controlled ‘trainers only copy’
assessment criteria/model answers for each assessment task

Clause 1.9
IIFS will implement an ongoing systematic validation plan of its assessment practices and judgements that includes for each training product on IIFS’s scope of registration:
• when assessment validation will occur;
• which training products are to be the focus of the validation;
• who will lead and participate in validation activities; and
• how the outcomes of these activities will be documented and acted upon (where the validation activity recommends/suggest an enhancement/change/alteration to the assessment practices, this will be recorded in the Continuous Improvement Register (F.03.32 Continuous Improvement Register) to ensure that the each recommendation is being acted upon)

Clause 1.12 / 3.5

Prior to enrolling learners in a qualification or package of qualification IIFS will offer recognition of prior learning to individual learners. As part of the RPL process where IIFS accepts and provides RPL credit to learners for units of competency these will be evidenced by AQF certification documentation issued by any other RTO or AQF authorised issuing organisation, or authenticated VET transcripts issued by the Registrar.

Clause 1.13
IIFS’s training and assessment will be delivered only by persons who have:
• AQF Qualification – TAE40110 Certificate IV in Training and Assessment or its successor; or a diploma or higher level qualification in adult education.
• vocational competencies at least to the level being delivered and assessed;
• current industry skills directly relevant to the training and assessment being provided; and
• current knowledge and skills in vocational training and learning that informs their training and
assessment.

Clause 1.16
IIFS will ensure that all its trainers and assessors undertake professional development in the fields of the knowledge and practice of vocational training, learning and assessment including competency based training and assessment (Annual Feedback and Review Policy).

Clause 1.26
• Where a training product on IIFS’s scope of registration is superseded IIFS will transfer all learners into its replacement within a period of one year from the date the replacement training product was released on the National Register. This will not apply where a training package requires the delivery of a superseded unit of competency.
• Where an AQF qualification is no longer current and has not been superseded, all learners’ training and assessment will be completed and the relevant AQF certification documentation issued within a period of two years from the date the AQF qualification was removed or deleted from the National Register
• IIFS will not commence training and assessment for a new learner in a training product that has
been removed or deleted from the National Register.

Clause 2.2
IIFS will monitor its training and assessment strategies and practices to ensure ongoing compliance with required Standards. In addition IIFS will also systematically evaluate and use the outcomes of the evaluations to continually improve its training and assessment strategies and practices (IIFS will document all improvements to its training and assessment strategies and practices in its Continuous Improvement Register for each qualification). Evaluation information includes but is not limited to

quality/performance indicator data, validation outcomes, client trainer and assessor feedback and complaints and appeals.

Clause 3.1 / 3.3
IIFS will only issue AQF certification documentation within 30 calendar days to a learner whom has being assessed as meeting the requirements of the training qualification as specified in the relevant training package or VET accredited course.

Clause 5.2
Each learner will be properly informed by IIFS prior to enrolment and at the commencement of training and assessment current and accurate information about the training and assessment they would need to undertake for the qualification.

Clause 6.2 / 6.4 /6.5
IIFS has Complaints and Appeals Policy to manage requests to review an assessment decisions made by IIFS Assessor. The process to be followed will ensure the principles of natural justice and procedural fairness are adopted at every stage of the appeal process. This will be available on IIFS’s website and will set out the procedure for requesting an appeal. The Appeal will be acknowledged in writing and finalised as soon as practicable. If the process fails to resolve the appeal at the request of the individual making the appeal,
IIFS will provide for a review by an appropriate party independent of IIFS and the appellant. Where IIFS considers it will take more than 60 calendar days are required to process and finalise the appeal, IIFS will inform the informs the appellant in writing, including reasons why more than 60 calendar days are required, and regularly update the appellant on the progress of the matter.
IIFS will securely maintain records of all appeals and their outcomes, and will identify potential causes of appeals and take appropriate corrective action to eliminate or mitigate the likelihood of its reoccurrence (Continuous Improvement Register).