Evaluator

Ideally the ‘evaluator’ must know and regularly work with (manage, supervise or delegate work to) the trainee. Where the training office is structured as such that evaluators are not directly involved with the trainee on the job, the training office must ensure that there are alternative methods to provide the evaluator with accurate information for purposes of the evaluation. This could, for example, be achieved through evaluation meetings attended by managers and/mentors who have been involved with trainees or individual discussions with reviewers so that the evaluator obtains an understanding of the work performed (context, complexity etc.), the trainee’s proficiency in the PVAAs, and development required. The evaluator’s main role on the EAT is to evaluate PDSs. The evaluator does not have to be registered with SAICA as an assessor. The evaluator can be anyone of the following: • Manager • Director • Partner • Training Officer Furthermore, the evaluator must have a full understanding of the SAICA assessment process and assessment instruments and how to measure a trainee’s level of proficiency per SAICA’s requirements. Evaluators will only have access to PDSs that they have been assigned to. Evaluators will not have any reporting features as they will be able to view all relevant to data to enable them to fulfil their duties on the PDSs assigned to them.