Category: Assessment
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The value of reinforcement
One of the key concepts we are all taught as trainers is that to get someone to learn we must have some form of reinforcement. This could be internal and external. Seems like common sense and essential. What if this was potential misleading. Read the article and reflect on the research presented. I’ve been marking…
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Periodically Pointless Education
I was listening to a group of boys on the train yesterday agonising over a test on the periodic table. They were quizzing each other and one boy in particular was getting more wrong then right. I wanted to lean over any say, don’t worry about it you’ll most likely never use the table again.…
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Assessment! Why is it so confusing?
I was delivering another assessment session to a group of participants on the weekend and the normal pattern emerged. Half of the group got the concept almost immediately and then the other half had a great deal of trouble understanding what was required when you have to plan an assessment based on set criteria. I…
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Outcomes, goals and assessment
Here is an interesting new take on setting goals or objectives (see video below). As trainers we constantly set objectives or outcomes for people or do we? I am starting to wonder how often we really do set outcomes. We talk about it a lot but how often do we actually pay that much attention…
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Competency Assessment Resources
I have a number of training groups studying assessment units at present and I forgot that I had produced a number of assessment related videos over the last 12 months. I have added a new one to the library on assessment tools. Check out the others below as well. You can access all of these…
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Cheating – why? Why not?
I read a good article on cheating this morning. The article makes a few good points and some excellent further reading. There is a lot of talk in training and education on cheating particularly since elearning continues to grow in popularity but I don’t think there is anymore or less cheating than say 10 years…
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Hire for attitude, train for skill
TUDE That post heading isn’t one of my own inventions. I have borrowed it from an article I just read recently (click here). I think I have heard something like this before but the article really brings home the importance of an employee’s attitude. In particular the point that you probably can not change a…
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Reliable Assessment
This Training Tips 56 video is way overdue. Some of my Diploma in TAA students did this last year as part of an elearning exercise (thanks Greg and Billy). This follows on from a whole series of videos on Assessment. This new one can be found at the usual places as well as below in…
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Cheating Big Time
Following my last post on cheating here is the YouTube version of the big cheating scandal at the University of Central Florida. It is a very interesting speech and explores the whole process of cheating. I am intrigued by his comments towards the end regarding cheating being over, forever. I wonder if he truly believes…
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Cheating
Can we stop participants cheating in an assignment, exam or essay? Technology has made it easier to cheat and at the same time it has created some great software that can detect cheating and plagiarism. I think that the more you try to stop cheating the cleverer participants get at finding ways to cheat and…