Stage 3 of 10 · Design and release
Architect
How will every outcome be taught and assessed?
- Purpose
- Plan how every outcome is assessed and delivered.
- Defining artefact
- Mapping matrix, assessment strategy
- Exit gate
- Coverage plan approved
- Failure it prevents
- Gaps discovered only at audit
Architect plans how every outcome will be assessed and delivered, before anything is written. Its defining artefact is the mapping matrix: the record that links each outcome descriptor to the assessment tasks and delivery sessions that address it.
This is the cheapest point in the lifecycle to find errors. Reviewing a coverage plan costs far less than rewriting a finished assessment.
What happens
- Choose the assessment strategy: the methods, the number of tasks, and what each task will evidence.
- Fill the mapping matrix so every descriptor has at least one assessment task and one delivery session planned against it.
At the gate, ask
- Does every descriptor have planned evidence? Does every planned task trace to a descriptor?
- Where a program clusters several standards, can each standard's coverage still be read on its own?
- Would an auditor find the plan complete today, before anything is built?