Not an Exam: how TESS apprenticeships really assess.
From a live TESS Group AI workshop · captions included
“It's not about passing an exam. It's about demonstrating learning… if you did two process maps and one of them was rubbish and your second one was better, put both in. That's what the end-point assessment is all about: validating it has actually been you that's done the work.”
Plenty of capable people freeze at the word 'assessment'. This clip explains why apprenticeship assessment rewards progress over perfection, useful for anyone deciding whether to enrol.
Transcript
It's a really interesting thing about apprenticeships: it's not about passing an exam, it's about demonstrating learning. The whole way we're taught, through school, college, university, wherever, is about best effort to pass the exam. This is about saying: no, we need to show evidence that we're moving from here to here. So even if you did two process maps, and one of them was rubbish and your second one was better, put both in. Because, in some ways, that's what the End-Point Assessment is all about: validating that it has actually been you that's done the job.
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