Category: Assessment
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Assessment Validation
Assessment validation isn’t a complex process but it is one that has many students and professional trainers and assessors confused about. I think the reason for that is two fold. One, it is often mixed up with the term valid, which is part of the validation process but not all of it and two, because…
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Setting Goals
As trainers we have to be good at setting goals and often we have to train students how to set goals. I think it is one of those fundamental skills that everyone should be good at and be able to utilise throughout their life. As a trainer you have to be even better than most…
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Reliability – we all want it
The next video in our assessment principles series has been released and can be found at the usual locations or below. This week we are covering reliability which along with validity are two of the most important principles in effective assessment design. Hope you are enjoying this series. Please let me know what you think…
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Validity in assessment
Validity to me is the most important principle of assessment design. Please watch the latest training tips 56 video which can be found at all of the usual locations or just below. Hopefully it will give you some insight into what validity is and why it is so important.
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Assessment Principles
The new training tips 56 video has been uploaded and is ready for your viewing pleasure. This is part one of an ongoing series looking at assessment principles and their importance to assessment design. You can find it at the usual locations or below. Let me know what you think.
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Writing an assessment is SIMPLE!
I think we have definitely over complicated the assessment writing process. This weeks Ask Logicool video outlines a simple five step process on how to write an effective assessment. In fact if you practice this you will be able to write an assessment in less than 15 minutes for a unit of competence. You will…
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Teacher performance appraisal – Who cares?
Teacher performance is one of those topics that comes up from time to time. Why? I believe that this is the case because it is still one of the few professions (some people are still debating whether it is a profession) where as a general rule performance appraisal has still not be adequately designed or…
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Assessment Quiz
We are constantly bombarded in the Australian training system with the importance of assessment. Too much I feel but more on that later. How much do you know about the history of assessment? Here is a simple quiz that like all good quizzes will end up teaching you new information, more than assessing your knowledge.…
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Cheating – can it be stopped?
I often get this question with elearning, ‘how do you know that the person completing the assessment or test online is the actual student and not a clever friend or family member’. Honestly, I don’t know. But this is not a new dilemma. If you think about even an assignment set for a ace to…