Employability assessment
Designing Better Employability Assessments
A practical structure for connecting programme outcomes to observable workplace evidence.
The design question
What should an employability assessment allow a learner to demonstrate?
01
Define the workplace outcomes and behaviours before selecting assessment activities.
02
Use realistic situations that require communication, reasoning, judgement and practical response.
03
Create evidence criteria that are understandable to reviewers and useful to programme teams.
Applying the principle
Build from outcomes to scenarios, from scenarios to observable indicators, and from indicators to a consistent evidence and review model.