| Student Assessment TASK 2 Skill Test |
Unit outcomes
Quality is one of three most important elements in the conduct of a project. Using the trade-off triangle approach, we can see that it ties in with Time and Cost. This unit will allow the student to investigate those attributes of establishing a Quality Control Plan and the management techniques for applying this to the construction environment
The student will understand that in project management, quality control requires the project manager and the project team to inspect the accomplished work to ensure its alignment with the project scope.
When applying these principles in general practice, the student will identify that projects typically have a dedicated quality control team which focuses on this and how to select and manage such QC/ QA teams.
At the completion of this unit students will be able to successfully demonstrate competency in:
- Relating to and identifying customer perception of quality
- Understand the main principles of ISO9000 series in QC Management
- Applying management skills to QA/ QC / Planning
This unit has a nominal duration of 60 hours. This will be broken up into:
- 6 face to face training sessions (4x 4 hr, 2 x 8 hr sessions)
- 28 hours self-directed learning, completion of activities and completion of their assessment tasks
Students will be issued with their workbook prior to the scheduled Classroom session through the Student Suite portal. They must come to the session having already read the workbook and completed some relevant subject activities.
To complete these assessments, you will require access to:
- access to BCA and relevant documents referenced in the BCA
- access to relevant legislation
- Research resources, including product information and data (Document Addendum)
- Relevant computer software package and suitable hardware.
Assessment Summary
Once you have demonstrated to your trainer/assessor that you have the required skills and knowledge for the unit they will inform you that you are ready to be assessed.
To gain competency in this unit you must accurately complete the following assessment tasks.
| Task | Description | Due Date |
| Assessment Task 1 Knowledge Check | You are required to complete all questions to a satisfactorily level. | As per Training plan |
| Assessment Task 2 Skills test | You are required to complete the listed Variance report, calculate variance and apply appropriate actions. You are required to play out a role on an onsite building workplace scenario. This will require producing answers to real building questions requested during daily operations. | As per Training Plan |
| Assessment Task 3 Project Work | You are required to develop an estimate cost for trades, the material types and labour requirements and contract conditions for a set of project plans, specifications and estimation sheets. | As per Training plan |
If you are unable to submit an assessment on or before the due date you must decide with your trainer/assessor for an extension and a new submission date
At the completion of each assessment task your trainer/assessor will deem your work to be:
- S – Satisfactory. You have completed your assessment task adequately meeting all of requirements.
- NS – Not Satisfactory. You have not provided enough evidence to meet all aspects of the assessment task.
Once all assessment tasks have been submitted you will receive an overall result for this unit being:
- C – Competent. All the required assessments have received a result of ‘S’ meaning you have demonstrated that you can successfully meet all of the unit outcomes.
- NYC – Not Yet Competent. One or more of your assessment tasks have received a result of NS meaning that you have not met the necessary requirements for that assessment.
Please refer to the student handbook for further information on re-assessment.
An adjustment is any measure or action that you may require because of a disability, which has the effect of assisting you to access and participate in education and training on the same basis as students without a disability. An adjustment is reasonable if it achieves this purpose while considering factors such as the nature of your disability, your views, and the potential effect of the adjustment on yourself and others, who might be affected, and the costs and benefits of making the adjustment.
We must maintain the academic integrity of a course and consider the requirements or components that are inherent or essential to its nature when assessing whether an adjustment is reasonable. There may be more than one adjustment that is reasonable in a given set of circumstances. We will make adjustments that are reasonable and that do not cause unjustifiable hardship to yourself and our organization.
If at any time whilst you are undertaking the assessment and you require further clarification on the task, or you believe you require an assessment to be adjusted due to a disability or other impacting situations please speak to your trainer/assessor for further information or possible options. During the assessment process your trainer/assessor can assist you with gaining understanding of the task, but they are unable to provide you with the response or any answers.
All assessment tasks have been designed to ensure that they meet all the requirements of the unit you are undertaking. They have also been designed to meet the rules and principles of assessments ensuring that all assessment tasks are:
- Fair
- Valid
- Flexible
- Reliable
- Authentic
- Sufficient
- Reliable
The assessments for this unit must be conducted in a quiet classroom or home study environment and/or simulated environment.
The assessments for this unit must be conducted in a safe environment for the safety of all students and trainers/assessors. Your trainer/assessor will cease the assessment at any time that they believe it has become unsafe for yourself and/or others around you.
If the assessment is ceased due to safety reasons your trainer/assessor may require you to undergo further training or make further adjustments to the task and/or environment prior to providing you with the opportunity to be re-assessed.
If you are unable to show competency in all the required assessment tasks you trainer/assessor will inform you that you will need to undertake the assessment task again.
Prior to undertaking the re-assessment process, you may be required to complete further learning activities to consolidate your skills and knowledge. Once you can demonstrate to your trainer/assessor that you possess the required skills and knowledge they will inform you that you are ready to be assessed again.
Please refer to your student handbook for further information on re-assessment.
If you believe that you have been unfairly assessed and wish to appeal your trainer/assessor decision or have any complaints in regard to your training or assessment results, please refer to our complaints and appeals procedure located on our website for further information.
All work submitted must be your own work and not taken from any other source. Any information utilized to assist you with your learning activities or assessments must be correctly referenced and a bibliography attached.
If the work submitted is found to have been plagiarized it will be unable to be accepted as a form of evidence towards this unit of competency.
Student Instructions
- This is an open book test – you can use the Internet, textbooks and other documents to help you with your answers if required.
- You are required to sign and date before starting Assessment tasks on the document provided at the start of each task.
- You are required to provide detailed answers, to the questions in the space provided. One-word responses will not be accepted as a suffice answer.
- You must answer all the questions correctly.
- Written questions may be a combination of multiple choice, short answer or true or false questions.
- The Trainer and Assessor will conduct reasonable adjustment should this be identified and documented.
- Your answers to these questions are used to determine an assessment judgement, part thereof the overall assessment judgment includes this task.
- All questions if necessary, will require a verbal interview from the Trainer to verify the responses.
- If any supplementary documents are required to be submitted, they must be marked with the Learner Name, date completed, and submitted alongside this Assessment Task.
- You can do this in classroom or at home in your own time and pace.
- You must submit the assignment by due date given by trainer.
Student Assessment Task 2 – Skills Test
Discussion, Communication and Documentation
The Trainer will organize the class into equal groups, making up the following Management levels within a building company:
• Directors
• Administration
• Construction
The groups will discuss their roles in the various levels of management within the company and how they would contribute to the external mandatory inspection points in this unit assessment.
The areas of discussion should center on QC management Control and Assurances/ Australian Standards/ NCC 2019.
Based on the following student learning material and class activities:
- The content of the Student Workbook.
- The Discussion notes taken from the class group activity on Quality Control in the building and construction industry- checklists.
The student will produce the fully comprehensive documents for presentation, covering individual and generic levels of inspection as applicable to a building site QC inspection point (IP) :
- QC Lock up Inspection checklist
- QC Frame Inspection Checklist
