SCRIPT FOR THE COMPETENCY ASSESSMENT

Assessor: Good morning everyone. My name is Jennifer R. Morite, and I’m

your competency assessor for Sheilded Metal Arc Welding.

I would like to acknowledge the presence of ____________________, our

Processing Officer. _________________, our AC Manager. And
________________,our Representative from TESDA Provincial Office. Good
morning Sir. Good morning Ma’am.

You do not have to worry about their presence. They are here to oversee the
conduct of the assessment; and to check if the conduct of assessment is in
accordance with the prescribe competency assessment, methodology and
procedure.

Before we start, please submit your admission slip… Thank you. Thank
you very much.

As I call your name, please acknowledge by raising your hand, and signed
the attendance sheet.
Mr./Mrs._____________________________________, please sign.
Mr./Mrs._____________________________________, please sign.

I have here with me your accomplished Application Form, and Self-

Assessment Guide. This is an indication that you know and can perform all
the units of competency enumerated for SMAW NCII.

I would like to welcome all of you to our center for your assessment
for SMAW NC II. The purpose of this is to determine the level of your
competency.

Today, I am going administer competency assessment for SMAW NC II.

The qualification for SMAW NC II is composed of basic, common, and core
competencies. For our core competencies, we do have:

1. Clean and maintain kitchen premises

2. Prepare stocks, sauces and soups
3. Prepare appetizers
 4. Prepare salads and dressing
5. Prepare sandwiches
6. Prepare meat dishes
7. Prepare vegetables dishes
8. Prepare egg dishes
9. Prepare starch dishes
10. Prepare poultry and game dish(es
11. Prepare seafood dishes
12. Prepare desserts
13. Package prepared food

1. The different task to be perform for our SMAW NCIIAssessment

are the following:

1. Prepare Soup
2. Prepare Protein Dish
3. Prepare Starch Dish
4. Prepare Vegetable Dish
5. Prepare Appetizer
6. Prepare Salad
7. Prepare Sandwich

We will collect evidences through demonstration, oral questioning, and written

test.

To determine your knowledge and skills for SMAW NCII,the assessment

method we will use will be written test, demonstration, and oral questioning.
These assessment methods can help to measure your underpinning
knowledge and skills.

For your personal needs, the lavatories located at the end of the whole
way, and you can also take your meal at our canteen. It is located at the
lobby. However, during the assessment, you are not allowed to leave the
premises of the assessment center.
 If you have difficulty understanding the given instruction, please do not
hesitate to inform me because I am willing to translate it for you. Also, during
the written examination, if you have dilemma writing down your answers, don’t
be shy because we can not set your answers verbally.

If you have concern, questions, or if there’s a need for to clarify matter

concerning the assessment, you me raise your hands because I am more that
willing to assess you; but once the assessment has been started, please
refrain from asking questions, it is no longer allowed. In the same token,
during the assessment, if you have physical or any form of difficulties, do not
hesitate to call my attention so that we can addressed it immediately.

If case you have any questions regarding the assessment result, you
have the right to appeal. You can submit your appeal to the TESDA Provincial
Office where the assessment center and the assessor are accredited.

For the issuance of the National Certificate, the AC Manager will inform
you where you can claim your national certificate within five (5) working days
after the assessment.

After the assessment, if you found not yet competent, don’t worry about it
because you can be reassess anytime at your own convenience. In case the
reassessment is full qualification, you had to undergo the whole assessment
process. If you found to be competent in some unit of competencies, the
reassessment shall focus on the unit of competencies where you were found
to be not yet competent. Also, if you failed two (2) consecutive assessment,
you will advice to undergo a refresher course before applying for re-
assessment.

During the actual assessment, please observe safety as you perform the
different task. Please sure to check on your electrical equipment before
plugging it. Avoid pulling the cord as you unplug the equipment. Observe
proper body mechanics in lifting heavy equipment to avoid back endures. In
case of accident, please call my attention immediately so that we could
provide you with first aid; and should a need arise, our first aid cabinet is
located at the right side of the laundry workshop.

With regards of the result of your assessment, we observe strict

confidentiality. This is to ensure your integrity. The results is only made
available to authorized personnel and to the institution where you have your
actual training. In relation to this, the assessment package is cut in a secured
place to guarantee the integrity of the assessment package. May I ask all
candidates to refrain from giving away any form of information that took place
during the assessment process.

If you don’t have any question or clarifications, then I’m going to distribute
the specific instructions. Please read it carefully, and do not hesitate to ask
questions right now. I may be able to translate it from English to your local
dialect. If you need assistance, then I will be more than willing to assess you.

I will give you your assign number. Here’s for you ma’am, and another
one for you.

So everybody must be ready now. Candidate number 1, you may

proceed to the assessment area; and to the risk of the candidate, please
remain while I call you by your number. Thank you.

This way please.

Candidate number 1, this is our assessment area where you are going to
perform sandwich making.

Please read the instruction again.

If you have any question, you may ask now because as soon as the
assessment begin, you can no longer ask me any question.

Candidate:Ma’am I don’t have further questions.

Assessor:In that regard, you may begin. Please be inform that after the
demonstration, their will be an oral questioning.

Candidate 1:Ok ma’am.

(Individual Demonstration, and Giving Feedback to the Candidates)

Assessor:Please set down candidate #1. How do you feel about the
assessment?
Candidate 1:Ma’am, I have confident that I was able to perform well during
the demonstration even if I have a hard time answering the oral questioning.

Assessor:My observation coincide with your opinion. You are competent in

performing the different skills for SMAW NCII.

However, I have noticed that you did not observe proper hygiene
while making sandwich. Further more, you are not competent in
answering question during oral questioning.

Never the less, you were able to answer all the written questions
correctly, and the result showed that you are knowledgeable enough
about SMAW NC II.

In this manner, I would like to congratulate you for a job well done. I
found out that you are already competent. Please sign the competency
result summary.

For the issuance of the national certificate, the AC Manager shall inform you
where
to claim your national certificate after five (5) working days. In this
regard, I would
like to say, congratulations!

Candidate 1:Thank you ma’am.

Assessor:Ms./Mr. ______________, please set down. How do you feel about

the assessment?

Candidate 2:I feel so nervous because I forgot the correct knife to use in
preparing sandwich.

Assessor:Really? So in that manner, what will you do if you will be ask to

demonstrate the
preparing of sandwich?

Candidate 2:I will try my best to control my fear and focus on the task being
ask.
Assessor:So, what did you learn from this session?

Candidate 2:I have learn that I should review on the knowledge and skills for
me to become
Confident and focus. Also, I will change my negative attitude towards
learning, and I
will try to practice/adopt the right utensil(s) to be use in preparing
food(s).

Assessor:Ms. ________________, you would be able to identify different

kitchen utensils use
in preparing sandwich. Actually you were very good at it. However,
your not able to
use the bread knife in cutting the edges and center of the sandwich.
These caused uneasy and broken to your output.

Based on the result of my observation during the demonstration, the

outcome of the assessment is that your not yet competent. However you
can be reassess anytime at your convenience.

Ms. ________________, if you have doubts regarding the

assessment result you
have the right to appeal. You can submit your appeal to TESDA
Provincial Office
where assessment center and assessor are accredited. Will, would
you please sign
the competency assessment result summary?… Do you have any
questions Ms./Mr.
____________________?

Candidate:No ma’am. I have no further questions

Assessor:Thank you very much.

(Record and report the result. The assessor shall record the assessment
outcome. Ensure rating sheets are signed by the candidate after giving
feedback. Accomplish the Competency Assessment Results Summary.

Submit to Assessment Center Manager, assessment reports. The AC

Manager will give the documents to the processing officer to accomplish the
Registry Workers Assessed and Certified. Sign Registry of Workers Assessed
and Certified.

After accomplishing the Registry Workers Assessed and Certified, the

processing officer will ask the assessor and AC Manager to sign before
passing it on together with the other documents to TESDA Representative.

The TESDA Representative will then deliver the documents to the designated
TESDA Office.)