Assessment reviews: A practical approach

Fit for purpose? Get clear on RTO assessment review obligations and build defensible, practical systems that won’t blow your budget.

Under the revised Standards for RTOs, Outcome Standard 1.3, 2(b) places a clear obligation on RTOs to review all assessment tools prior to use to ensure they are fit for purpose and aligned with the principles of assessment and the rules of evidence.

But what does fit for purpose actually look like in practice?

How detailed does a pre-use review really need to be and who should complete it?

And how can RTOs meet this requirement realistically when time, resourcing and budgets are already stretched?

Join Sally, Scott and Brooke for a practical and insightful discussion that unpacks what the Standards are genuinely asking for, where RTOs are commonly getting stuck, and how to implement assessment review processes that are robust, defensible and proportionate—without creating unnecessary workload or over-engineered systems.

This session is ideal for RTO owners, compliance managers, training managers, and anyone involved in assessment design, validation or audit readiness.