Overview
A challenge includes the apprentice finishing a big and outlined piece of labor that has an actual enterprise software and profit. The challenge should meet the wants of the employer’s enterprise and be related to the apprentice’s occupation and apprenticeship.
This evaluation technique has 2 parts:
Collectively, these parts give the apprentice the chance to display the KSBs mapped to this evaluation technique. They’re assessed by an unbiased assessor.
Rationale
This EPA technique is getting used as a result of on this occupation, experiences and displays are generally used within the office, and this can be a typical technique of delivering challenge outcomes. The strategy was chosen because it gives the chance to display a variety of information, abilities, and behaviours which are often demonstrated in a fancy challenge setting.
The additional rationale for this evaluation is:
- it’s a holistic evaluation technique, permitting the apprentice to display KSBs in an built-in means
- it gives a cheap evaluation, because it minimises unbiased assessor time and makes use of the apprentice’s employer’s office, tools and assets, and may contribute to office productiveness.
Supply
The apprentice should full a challenge primarily based on any of the next:
Instance robotics and automation challenge titles may embrace:
1. Examine present tools to guage cycle occasions, figuring out bottleneck and potential efficiencies. Set up advised enhancements, prices, and the feasibility of implementation.
2. Examine the potential vitality financial savings of optimising present manufacturing traces.
3. Set up the feasibility of implementing a brand new product to present manufacturing amenities and together with how this might be mitigated and set up justification to make these adjustments.
To make sure the challenge permits the apprentice to fulfill the KSBs mapped to this evaluation technique to the best out there grade, the EPAO ought to sign-off the challenge’s title and scope on the gateway to verify it’s appropriate. The EPAO should confer with the grading descriptors to make sure that initiatives are pitched appropriately.
The challenge output should be within the type of a report and presentation.
The apprentice should begin the challenge after the gateway. The employer ought to make sure the apprentice has the time and assets, throughout the challenge interval, to plan and full their challenge.
The apprentice may go as a part of a crew to finish the challenge, which may embrace inside colleagues or technical specialists. The apprentice should nevertheless, full their challenge report and presentation unaided they usually should be reflective of their very own function and contribution. The apprentice and their employer should verify this when the report and any presentation supplies are submitted.
Element 1: Challenge report
The report should embrace at the very least:
- an government abstract (or summary)
- an introduction
- the scope of the challenge (together with key efficiency indicators, goals and goals)
- a challenge plan
- methodology
- robotics programs design
- enterprise case
- analysis outcomes
- knowledge evaluation outcomes
- challenge outcomes
- dialogue of findings
- suggestions and conclusions
- references
- appendix containing mapping of KSBs to the report.
The challenge report should have a phrase depend of 8000 phrases. A tolerance of 10% above or beneath is allowed on the apprentice’s discretion. Appendices, references and diagrams aren’t included on this complete. The apprentice should produce and embrace a mapping in an appendix, displaying how the report evidences the KSBs mapped to this evaluation technique.
The apprentice should full and submit the report and any presentation supplies to the EPAO by the top of week 20 of the EPA interval.
Element 2: Presentation with questions
The presentation with questions should be structured to offer the apprentice the chance to display the KSBs mapped to this evaluation technique to the best out there grade.
The apprentice should put together and ship a presentation to an unbiased assessor. After the presentation, the unbiased assessor should ask the apprentice questions on their challenge, report and presentation.
The presentation ought to cowl:
- an summary of the challenge
- the challenge scope (together with key efficiency indicators)
- abstract of actions undertaken by the apprentice
- challenge outcomes and the way these had been achieved
The presentation with questions should final 60 minutes. It will sometimes embrace a presentation of half-hour and questioning lasting half-hour. The unbiased assessor should use the complete time out there for questioning. The unbiased assessor can improve the time of the presentation and questioning by as much as 10%. This time is to permit the apprentice to finish their final level or reply to a query if obligatory.
The unbiased assessor should ask at the very least 5 questions. They have to use the questions from the EPAO’s query financial institution or create their very own questions in keeping with the EPAO’s coaching. Comply with up questions are allowed the place clarification is required.
The aim of the unbiased assessor’s questions is:
- to confirm that the exercise was accomplished by the apprentice
- to hunt clarification the place required
- to evaluate these KSBs that the apprentice didn’t have the chance to display with the report, though these ought to be saved to a minimal
- to evaluate stage of competence towards the grading descriptors
20 of the EPA interval. The apprentice should notify the EPAO, at that time, of any technical necessities for the presentation.
In the course of the presentation, the apprentice should have entry to:
- audio-visual presentation tools
- flip chart and writing and drawing supplies
- pc
Together with another necessities as beforehand notified to the EPAO.
The unbiased assessor should have at the very least 2 weeks to evaluation the challenge report and any presentation supplies, to permit them to arrange questions.
The apprentice should be given at the very least 2 weeks’ discover of the presentation with questions.
Evaluation determination
The unbiased assessor should make the grading determination. They have to assess the challenge parts holistically when deciding the grade.
The unbiased assessor should preserve correct data of the evaluation. They have to report:
- the KSBs demonstrated within the report and presentation with questions
- the apprentice’s solutions to questions
- the grade achieved
Evaluation location
The presentation with questions should happen in an acceptable venue chosen by the EPAO for instance, the EPAO’s or employer’s premises. It ought to happen in a quiet room, free from distractions and affect.
The presentation with questions could be performed by video conferencing. The EPAO should have processes in place to confirm the id of the apprentice and make sure the apprentice will not be being aided.
Query and useful resource improvement
The EPAO should develop a purpose-built evaluation specification and query financial institution. It is suggested that is accomplished in session with employers of this occupation. The EPAO ought to keep the safety and confidentiality of EPA supplies when consulting with employers. The evaluation specification and query financial institution should be reviewed at the very least every year to make sure they continue to be fit-for-purpose.
The evaluation specification should be related to the occupation and display the best way to assess the KSBs mapped to this evaluation technique. The EPAO should be certain that questions are refined and developed to a excessive normal. The questions should be unpredictable. A query financial institution of adequate dimension will help this.
The EPAO should be certain that the apprentice has a unique set of questions within the case of re-sits or re-takes.
EPAO should produce the next supplies to help the challenge:
- unbiased assessor EPA supplies which embrace:
- coaching supplies
- administration supplies
- moderation and standardisation supplies
- steering supplies
- grading steering
- query financial institution
- EPA steering for the apprentice and the employer
The EPAO should be certain that the EPA supplies are topic to high quality assurance procedures together with standardisation and moderation.
