Descriptors are short descriptions of the literacy skills that underpin unit standards - including reading, writing, speaking and listening, numeracy and critical thinking. The descriptors come with extra information that helps explain the skills. They also come with ideas on how trainers and assessors can help trainees develop those skills. Together they make up the descriptor bank.
Some form of literacy underpins most unit standards. You can see how the language used in unit standards and in assessment documents assumes trainees have some literacy skills.
If
a unit standard says...
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It
implies that... |
| recording
according to company procedures |
trainees can write and record
data accurately |
| work methods
described in accordance with company policies and procedures |
trainees can read those documents |
| ingredients
are weighed out according to enterprise procedure |
trainees know the correct unit
of measure, can carry out a weighing
procedure correctly and understand the range of weights that are
required |
ITOs in this project understand that literacy may be an issue behind productivity problems such as poor quality documentation, product wastage and accidents. Knowing more about the literacy in industry unit standards will make it easier for ITOs, providers and workplace trainers to take literacy into account in the training system.
Next: How the descriptor bank is presented
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