Principles of Assessment & Rules of Evidence

For a Basic Instructor Course Assessment, one of the performance criteria is that the candidates must be able to demonstrate their competency in lesson delivery and facilitation. Thus, each candidate is required to facilitate the conduct of a 50 minute lesson.

Which Principle of Assessment has been illustrated in the above scenario?

• Validity

• Reliability

• Flexibility

• Fairness

If a candidate has special needs which require adjustments to the assessment conduct, the assessor must clearly document the adjustments made as part of the assessment record, in sufficient detail, so as to enable the Chief Invigilator to endorse that the adjustments are appropriate.

Which Principle of Assessment has been illustrated in the above scenario?

• Validity

• Reliability

• Flexibility

• Fairness

A candidate missed the Assessment Brief (due to medical leave) for an assessment scheduled next week. The instructor arranged an individual brief for him to ensure that the soldier is fully informed and understand the assessment requirements and criteria and not be in a disadvantage position.

• Validity

• Reliability

• Flexibility

• Fairness

If a trainee is completing a module in prismatic compass, he must be asked to perform navigation using prismatic compass and not based on Star formation.

Which Principle of Assessment has been illustrated in the above scenario?

• Validity

• Reliability

• Flexibility

• Fairness

For a CPR Course Assessment, documents such as Instruction to Assessors and Assessment Specifications are given to various assessors to ensure consistency over time and with different candidates.

Which Principle of Assessment has been illustrated in the above scenario?

• Validity

• Reliability

• Flexibility

• Fairness

In view that there are children of new citizens enlisting in our organisation, the assessors must be mindful of the candidates’ language proficiency, as some of these soldiers may come from non-English speaking countries. Thus, Oral Questioning may be conducted in other languages.

Which Principle of Assessment has been illustrated in the above scenario?

• Validity

• Reliability

• Flexibility

• Fairness

During an Assessment which involve essay writing, candidates who are from non-English speaking countries and thus are not proficient in the language, are allowed to bring dictionary into the exam hall. This is to ensure that learners are tested on their knowledge and not on their language proficiency.

Which Principle of Assessment has been illustrated in the above scenario?

• Validity

• Reliability

• Flexibility

• Fairness

For a Basic Instructor Course Assessment, the assessors used the Observation Checklist to determine if any criteria is unmet which will deem the candidate ‘Not-Yet-Competent (NYC)’.

Which Principle of Assessment has been illustrated in the above scenario?

• Validity

• Reliability

• Flexibility

• Fairness

For a CPR assessment, the candidates are assessed on both Practical Performance and a theory test.

Which Rule of Evidence has been illustrated in the above scenario?

• Validity

• Sufficiency

• Currency

• Authenticity

An Oral Questioning can be conducted in addition to the Written Assignment to ensure that the work is produced by the candidate.

Which Rule of Evidence has been illustrated in the above scenario?

• Validity

• Sufficiency

• Currency

• Authenticity