Demonstrating competence

In vocational education, you primarily demonstrate your competence through practical tasks at the workplace. During the demonstration, your skills are compared to the professional skill requirements defined in the qualification criteria. The assessment criteria for the qualification units are specified in the qualification criteria: ePerusteet.

You plan the demonstration together with the teacher and the workplace instructor for each vocational qualification unit. If you are unable to comprehensively demonstrate the competence required for the entire qualification unit at one workplace, you can continue the demonstration at another workplace/site, or at another location agreed upon in the demonstration plan. The plan is recorded in the Personal Competence Development Plan (PCDP).

During the demonstration, the workplace instructor and/or teacher will observe and monitor your work. The demonstration may also include written tasks. After the demonstration, you have the opportunity to conduct a self-assessment and participate in an assessment discussion. The demonstration is evaluated, and the grade is determined by a teacher from Riveria and a representative from the working life.

The teacher will record your grade in Wilma within one week after the assessment decision.

The common qualification units and their components are assessed by the teacher. The competence required to complete the common qualification units can be demonstrated through written or oral exams and various tasks. When the competence is shown in conjunction with a vocational qualification unit, it can be included in the demonstration. At the beginning of the course, the teacher will explain how the assessment will be carried out.

For the components of the common qualification units, the assessing teacher will record the grade in Wilma with justifications within two weeks after you have demonstrated your competence.

Reviewing and correction of an assessment

When you receive the grade for your demonstration, recognition of prior learning, or a component of the common studies, you might feel that the assessors have applied the assessment criteria incorrectly. In this case you have the opportunity to request a review of the assessment within 14 days.

Upon receiving the Wilma message, the assessors will process the request for review. The decision will be made in writing, which the assessing teacher will send to the student via a Wilma message.

Qualification training students

As a student in qualification training, you can appeal the decision made by the assessors on your request for review to the working life committee if you are not satisfied with the decision.

The appeal must be requested in writing within 14 days upon receiving the decision. It should be sent to the working life committee responsible for the qualification or qualification unit.

For the assessment of common qualification units and their components, an appeal is requested from the working life committee for the education and guidance sector. Ask the team leader of your sector for further instructions.

Preparatory education for qualification training (TUVA) students

As a student in preparatory education for qualification training (TUVA), you can request an appeal in writing from the principal regarding the decision made by the assessor on the review of the assessment.

The appeal must be requested within 14 days of receiving the decision. If, as a student in preparatory education, you are completing units of a vocational qualification, you will proceed in the same manner as a student in qualification training.

If there is a clear error in the assessment, the assessors can conduct a new assessment without a request for review or an appeal (self-correction).