Follow six steps to implement a structured workplace learning and assessment model that fits with your agency's culture and builds on its current training and development systems. Let Learning State guide you - we're the experts in workplace learning and assessment.

A typical procedure to implement workplace assessment follows six broad steps:

1. Identify the skills and competencies your agency needs

2. Design the workplace learning and assessment model that best meets your agency's needs

3. Identify key roles and train staff in your agency

4. Promote workplace learning and assessment in your agency

5. Implement workplace learning and assessment in your agency

6. Meet moderation requirements for consistent assessment

When you are ready to start, contact a Learning State advisor to guide you through each step. They'll provide proven models and practical advice.

Step 1: Identify the skills and competencies your agency needs Identify the skills, knowledge and competencies your employees need to meet your agency's needs. Match these competencies to the unit standards and qualifications on the National Qualifications Framework. Each unit standard has resources explaining the evidence learners must provide for assessment. Registered workplace assessors will evaluate the learner's evidence to see whether it meets the unit standard benchmark.

Step 2: Design the workplace learning and assessment model that best meets your agency's needs You need a structured workplace assessment and learning model that is consistent with your agency's structure, culture, and needs. Take into account the different ways learning and assessment can take place (for example, on-job learning, external learning, coaching, or recognition of current competence). Make sure the workplace learning and assessment model follows the five key principles of assessment. The evidence must be valid, reliable, sufficient, authentic, and current. The assessment process must also be consistent and fair.

Step 3: Identify key roles and train staff in your agency Define the key roles within the workplace learning and assessment model. Identify the staff to be trained as assessors. Identify learners and explain the whole learning and assessment process to them (for example, explain the agency's workplace assessment policy, the National Qualifications Framework, unit standards and qualifications, what evidence is needed, how to gather evidence, and how evidence is assessed).

Step 4: Promote workplace learning and assessment in your agency Raise your staff's awareness and understanding of workplace learning and assessment.

Step 5: Implement workplace learning and assessment in your agency Once a workplace learning and assessment model has been established in your agency, implement a pilot programme to test how well it works. Evaluate the pilot and amend the model as required. Then implement workplace learning and assessment throughout your agency.

Step 6: Meet moderation requirements for consistent assessment To make sure assessment within your agency is consistent within assessment tasks, across assessors, and across the country, your agency must meet the moderation requirements. More about moderation