Lunch & Learn: Assessments Through the Learning Process

Assessments Through the Learning Process

NOTE: Register by Sept 16 to reserve a lunch. 

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Program Description:

Assessments play a vital role in measuring employees' knowledge, skills, and attitudes. Effective assessments also help organizations identify learning needs, manage talent, monitor performance, and ensure regulatory compliance.

This interactive presentation will explore the different types of aasessments and explain their respective applications, with particular emphasis on how trainers and instructional designers can use surveys, quizzes, tests, and exams to enhance the learning process. It will also examine the connection between organizational needs and quality assessment practices.

Key concepts that will be addressed:

• Using questions and feedback to enhance learning (and decrease forgetting)
• Types of assessments used before, during, and after learning activities
  
• Setting pass/fail scores for criterion-referenced assessments
• Interpreting item (question) and test statistics to determine reliability
  
• Basic principles for making assessments support organizational goals
• Emerging practices including mobile delivery and assessment for informal learning initiatives