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Beyond Multiple Choice: Nine Ways to Leverage Technology for Better Assessments |
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Monday, November 09, 2009 10:00:00 AM (GMT - London) | | Summary |
 | This web seminar will explain how assessments play a vital role in measuring people’s knowledge, skills and attitudes. Participants in this session will learn techniques for creating effective assessments that will help organisations improve performance, manage workforce competencies, and ensure regulatory compliance. | | | Eligibility |
 | Anyone interested in learning more about authoring, administering, and managing assessments or assessment programs, and issues related to assessment including validity and reliability.
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 | Call in Details will be sent via email prior to seminar | | | Agenda |
 | Assessments play a vital role in measuring people's knowledge, skills and attitudes. Effective assessments also help organisations improve performance, manage workforce competencies, and ensure regulatory compliance. How can you create and assessments that produce appropriate, actionable results? What can you do to ensure the quality of questions and the security of assessments all the way from authoring and scheduling to administration, reporting, and analysis? How can you make the best use of online authoring, reporting, analytical, and security tools?
Participants in this session will learn about:
* Matching the right question type to the right skill
* Using feedback to guide learning
* Organising your questions in a centralised item bank structured to meet your organisations needs
* Providing a collaborative, secure authoring environment to broaden your base of potential authors
* Randomising delivery of choices and questions
* Creating assessments that adapt and branch based on participant responses and scores
* Matching the delivery environment and technology to the stakes
* Accommodating participant needs through blended delivery
* Making use of reporting and analytics to derive meaning from your assessments and communicate results to stakeholders
The seminar will last approximately 50 minutes followed by a brief Q&A session.
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