Introducing Shelley Gillis...

Shelley Gillis, Principal Research Officer, The University of Melbourne Shelley Gillis is the principle research officer in the field of competency based assessment at  the Assessment Research Centre (The University of Melbourne Research Centre).

Her major research activities are in the area of competency based assessment within vocational education and training settings.  She has considerable experience with industry training advisory bodies in the design and validation of competency standards and assessment materials (both the endorsed and non-endorsed components of training packages), as well as the establishment of quality assurance procedures and mechanisms for designing, managing and monitoring assessment systems.  Shelley was the principle research officer for the research into, and the development of the endorsed components of the Training Package for Assessment and Workplace Training.  She was also the principle research investigator into the ASTF funded national project on best practice models for assessment in VET in Schools Programs.  She is currently undertaking her Ph.D. studies in the field of competency based assessment and her research examines factors influencing decision making processes in performance based assessments across both vocational education and industrial settings.  She also lectures in competency and performance assessment as part of the Masters degree of Assessment and Evaluation at the University of Melbourne.

During this online guest session, Shelley will focus on some of the assessment instruments developed as part of the VET in Schools research project recently completed by the Australian Student Traineeship Foundation. This will complete the policy focus of Dr Jack Keating.

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First published December 3. Last modified December 6, 1999.