Maintaining Status

Activity reports are reviewed by the Evaluations Committee annually. Skill Evaluators who have not performed at least one operational evaluation on a minimum of four different candidates over the course of one calendar year may be placed on conditional leave. They are contacted by their Chief Evaluator via phone or in person to determine if there are extenuating circumstances which prevented or hampered evaluations during that year.

After the personal conversation, the Chief Evaluator makes a determination on the Evaluator’s status or seeks the advice the Evaluation Committee. The Skill Evaluator is either returned to active status or placed on inactive status. An inactive evaluator may return to active status by completing an online qualification exam or attending an F2F training day and successfully completing either with a score of 80% or better.

Becoming a Chief Evaluator

Skill Evaluators desiring to become Chiefs petition the Board of Chiefs (Evaluations Committee). From time to time that group may reach out to established Skill Evaluators asking them to consider the role of Chief.

Criteria for elevation to Chief Evaluator shall be established by the Evaluation Committee.

The Board of Chief Evaluators (Evaluations Committee) considers petitions annualy and appoints those deemed worthy.

Next Step

You’ve completed a quick overview of the classroom portion of the Skill Evaluator accreditation training.

Your questions, concerns, comments, and suggestions for improvement should be posted in the WCA Forum area of the website

[ https://woodworkcareer.org/?forum=wca-forum ].

Now, take the Quiz by clicking on the ASE Online Quiz title below this lesson. You will be asked to “register” or “log in” to take the Quiz.

You will need an 80% score or better to qualify to attend the Hands-On 1/2 day Skill Evaluator Training if you have not already completed that part of the process.

In the event you have already done the Hands-On part, then a score of 80% or better on the Quiz will complete your accreditation as a Skill Evaluator.

[ ASE Online Quiz ]

Evaluators may set any fee structure they feel is market-worthy and equitable, using guidelines from the Handbook and their training. Large, dense metropolitan areas may, for instance, have lower travel costs but higher evaluation rates, whereas larger geographic regions with lower density may experience high travel costs and lower evaluation rates due to standard of living adjustments.

Evaluators make their own business agreements with the candidates or companies. They are responsible for invoicing for their services, which may include pre-payment of some portion to assure compliance, and collecting fees from the candidates or the companies.

Evaluators do not collect any fees due to the WCA, i.e., Passport and enrollment fees, Skill Standard purchases, tool point assessment credit package purchases, Skill Certificate purchases, or any other items sold by the Program.

In a school setting, the Evaluator probably doesn’t get additional pay or a fee for being there in the classroom. Additional income might be obtained for work outside of class.

In an industrial setting the Evaluator may be a regular employee who would not get additional pay or a fee for being there evaluating company employees during the regular work day. An Evaluator from industry may, however, contract with other entities or groups of candidates for fee-based assessments.

SPECIAL NOTE: The WCA Registry is evolving. Some of the features mentioned in this training may not be available in the early stages.

There are two ways to record results of an Evaluation:

A – Using a clipboard with a one-page printed assessment form for each operation. These forms are available from the WCA Box source for download. They should be downloaded and printed in advance of the session based on the Candidate’s requested tools/machines/operations.

B – Using the iPad application [coming soon] which can connect directly to the Candidate’s records in the WCA Registry.

Regardless of the technique used for capturing the results of the observation, the Evaluator shall inform the Candidate of the results immediately upon the conclusion of the assessment.

Upon successful completion of the assessment, the Candidate’s evaluation sheet shall be marked and filed by the Evaluator. The official record is held in the Registry database, not the Assessment Sheets or the Passport.

Within 24 hours of the assessment(s), Evaluators are expected to input the data to the Registry.

If NOT using the iPad app, Log in to the WCA Registry [ cms.woodworkcareer.org ] using your unique user name and password. Under the “Evaluator Tools” choose candidates. Use the search box at the top to find your candidate. Enter the results using the button on the far right.

IMPORTANT :: The registry accepts and enters the data immediately. There is no Undo once the data is saved. Should you enter data incorrectly, please contact the WCA office. We will help you correct the records.

Evaluators are to take the role of coach rather than the position of an enforcer.

Our role should be to help our candidates succeed and achieve, not to set traps or watch them fail. (There may be instances, when evaluating advanced levels, in which a tool may be intentionally taken out of adjustment to permit the candidate to pass an adjustment-related test.)

The first contact with a Candidate will take the form of a friendly exploration of the goals of the coming assessment(s), the understanding of and comfort level with the Skill Standards to be reviewed, and the assurance that we are working together for success.

An Evaluator will prepare for a session well in advance, both in consideration of the time of the Candidate as well as to show the high level of professionalism we expect of our team. Advanced preparation results in a smoothly executed evaluation session.

As the session begins, continue to support the Candidate with the understanding that an Evaluator can not conduct training to achieve the Level, nor shall the Evaluator give direct hints to the Candidate on how to complete the operation successfully.