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Category: Assessment

  • Training, learning or assessment?

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    I was once called a teacher and then I became a trainer but now I often feel like I am a assessment coach and whatever happened to learning? Do you feel the same. What I mean above was that I used to think the idea was that I was trying to help people learn and…

  • Online learning and cheating

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    Yes, you can cheat in the online learning environment. But you have always been able to cheat in the more traditional forms of learning. How does any assessor know if the essay written by a student was actually written by that student. The potential to limit cheating in the online learning environment may actually be…

  • Behavioural styles

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    Darren
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    I am currently doing some work with behavioural styles. You might like this simple copyright free assessment. Get the assessment here There is lots of information available on the internet if you want t use this matrix. A full explanation and training program for the assessment can be found here.

  • How much do you know about science?

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    What’s your general science knowledge like? Here is an opportunity to test yourself and contribute to some research. I got one wrong – bummer. Click here to go to the test

  • New career

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    I have trained quite a few people lately who are looking for a new career. Do you feel unsatisfied by your current career or path. Do this little assessment to see if a new career is warranted. The assessment is located here

  • The competency system is broken

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    Yes, the competency system is broken. Throw it out! I was in the education system when it came in and I have watched it progress from a system which held great hope to a system which is holding back required revolutionary change. It is a system designed for the industrial age to manufacture industry ready…

  • Sunday Zephyr – Funny Assessments

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    Being a Sunday this is most likely not a day you want to think about assessments but the following article contains 21 funny assessment results. You probably have your own. I remember marking a participant’s assessment online and regularly writing on it – correct, as I had nothing better to write but wanted to let…

  • Want to mark assessments online?

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    I like the look of this new assessment app. Looks simple and useful for both the assessor and the participant. Now we just need to convince most RTO’s that though don’t need the endless paper systems that the have developed. The system is called ReMarkable. Can’t see the video – click here

  • Cheating

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    Cheating has been around for as long as learning has been around. No surprises really. If there is a short cut then someone will work it out and try it out. Some are never caught and some are. Plagiarism is a form of cheating and I have found a few out over the years. The…

  • Assessment Evidence

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    I am trialling this simple assessment evidence gathering tool for some classes that I am currently teaching at the moment where the evidence is them actually working on the web and building web pages to reflect other content we are exploring in the program like diversity, policy implementation and networking. My initial play with this…