Hi Marlene

These are excellent - thank you for sharing.

If it's okay with you, I would like to include these as resources in the new Certificate IV in Training and Assessment Toolbox that we're currently developing. I think they would be useful tools to include amongst the support materials we are providing in the Toolbox, particularly in the units related to flexible/online learning.

cheers

:) Louise

Sure Louise, but the sources will need to be acknowledged (the Basic one was developed here by LearnScope SA)

absolutely Marlene... I would be happy to do that, no problem.

I'll contact you via email to get all the details so that I can be sure to include appropriate recognition and acknowledgement of the developers.

:) L

At the risk of appearing pedantic, and in the spirit of constructive criticism, I feel it my duty to object to any further currency being given to the categorisation (as per 1423,1424,1426)"High level of confidence – Not a lot more I can learn about this topic." My experience is that the hallmark of the genuinely learned or expert is a cheerful explicit admission that there is always a lot more to be learnt. I suggest that it is likely that (some/many?) people who could justly identify as "expert/highly skilled" will sytematically under-represent themselves in these instruements as merely moderate, rather than be a party to such an arrogance, and the veracity of the audit process will be artificially skewed. Or has some clever aspect of the survey intrumentalist's art gone over my head?

Cheers, Daniel

Hi Daniel,

You provide a good argument and I take your point :-) A Skills Audit however is always somewhat subjective and often measures the attitude of the individual and their perception of their own skills, more than the skill itself.

When I have used these Skills Audits as a project team leader, I take particular note of individuals that have ticked the box you mention and it tells me a lot about the person...often more than they intended :-D Numerous times an identical Skills Audit completed at the END iof the project has that same individual ticking a box far lower down the scale...IOW their skill-level hasn't gone down but the perception of their expertise has shifted. Maybe you have always been lucky to have "genuinely learned or expert" participants in your project teams, however this is not always the case.

Feel free to use the documents as you wish though (including changing the column headings)and alter them to suit yourself. My opinion is just my opinion (grin)

a great resource, will help inform how I develop skills audits for our teams. I've only ever seen one before (developed here at Hunter Institute), so it is great to eyeball some different formats/content.

Thanks for your generosity Marlene, these will be great in my work, could you also send me the reference data? Linda

Hi Marlene

Thanks for this... there is something to suit everyone.

Jan

Just sharing my appreciation for the skills surveys. As part of our Learnscope projects, we wanted to do an initial skills audit and then a follow up. Saved me tons of work and had things that I probably wouldn't have thought to include. thanks bunches.

Marie

For those asking for references, Number 4 was derived from the Framing the Future “From Desk to Disk” publication, but its been altered by Torrens Valley TAFE to suit a LearnScope project they did back in 1999. Not sure how you would reference that :-)

Hello Marlene,

These tools are excellent, and will prove very useful in the future. Many thanks

Jackie