Level 1 assessment, the questionnaires we all use at the end of training, only capture the feelings of the learner to training. You need more data to evaluate whether the learners have learned. FKA's Assessment Workshop takes you to the next level. This program is perfect for designers who need to create Level 2 evaluations for their curriculum. The workshop also examines the actions required to ensure performance (Level 3) back on the job.
Who should attend:
Course designers and developers charged with implementing Level 2 evaluation.
Learning professionals who need to design effective higher level assessment questions.
Workshop Objectives:
Identify the five criteria for "good" tests.
Relate "assessment" and "evaluation".
Discuss how the Model of Performance (MoP) defines the required performance.
Write effective objectives for formal learning initiatives.
Create effective test for understanding questions for ongoing learner assessment.
Develop true/false, multiple-choice, matching, short answer, essay and scenario-based test questions for Level 2 assessments.
Develop processing questions that assess learners' ability to comprehend, apply, analyze, synthesize and evaluate.
Use checklists to validate your own questions.
Align test questions with the learning objectives.
Recognize common weaknesses in learning interactions.
Develop effective learning interactions.
Incorporate processing questions when debriefing an application.
Create reliable, valid and defensible assessments.
Course Outline:
Framework for Effective Design and Delivery:
Training for performance and results.
Instructional design methodology.
Levels of evaluation.
Challenges for effective assessment.
Systematic Learning Process:
A learning model that respects Adult Learning Principles.
Presentation, Motivation, Information Transfer.
Testing for Understanding, Application.
Feedback.
Instructional strategies.
Assessment:
What is assessment.
The importance of good tests.
Reliable, valid and fair tests.
Types of rating errors.
Objectives and Tests:
What makes an objective effective?
Components of an objective.
Types of objectives.
Formal versus informal assessment.
Types of tests/assessments.
Linking tests to on-the-job performance and learning objectives.
Developing bridging strategies.
Sample test items.
Test Item Questions and Development:
Guidelines for writing test items.
Benefits and disadvantages of each type.
What makes each type unique?
Using questions effectively.
Recall/recognition versus processing questions.
Importance of higher-level questions.
Learning domains.
Bloom's Taxonomy.
Working with action verbs.
Interactivity:
Interactivity in learning interactions.
Weaknesses in learning interactions.
Complete learning interactions.
Guidelines for effective feedback in on-line and instructor-led environments.
Evaluating interactivity by frequency and volume.
Facilitating an application.
Processing questions during de-brief and summary.
Scenario-based questions:
What is a scenario-based question.
Samples of scenario-based questions.
Advantages/disadvantages of scenario-based questions.
What makes scenario-based questions unique.
Scenario-based question checklist.
Legal Defensibility:
Reliability and test length.
Factors affecting test length.
Cut scores and how they are determined.
Process to ensure legal defensibility.
Level 3 - Transfer of Training:
What is transfer of training.
Barriers that effect transfer.
Action steps for implementation of Level 3.
Application Exercises:
Using your real-world training content, create theory/application, true/false, multiple choice, matching, fill-in-the-blank, short answer and essay questions.
Create scenario-based questions using your real-world training content.
Review your real-world training content and: assess objectives against criteria; assess test questions using guidelines and checklists; assess the level of test questions; assess for balance; assess if questions meet objectives; make recommendations for improvement.
Achieving Performance and Results from Training:
The learning process.
Continuous Improvement of our effective assessment techniques.
Prices: On-line or On-site, call for custom pricing.
2 Great Delivery Options:
$1899.00 - On-line through a series of live on-line sessions followed by self-directed assignements in between each session .
On-site in a classroom setting. Call for pricing and to arrange this on-site workshop at the right time and location to meet your needs.
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