Question 1

List 3 guidelines for writing and administering exams

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Question 2

List the 2 advantage and 2 disadvantage of essay questions.

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Question 3

Developing skill criteria allows trainers to accurately assess trainees' level of performance.

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Developing skill criteria provides a clear, measurable set of standards against which trainers can evaluate the progress and performance levels of trainees, ensuring accurate assessment.

Question 4

Anthony is pressed for time but must assess cognitive learning at the end of his training program. He has chosen to create and use a multiple-choice exam for the assessment. What are the advantages of this type of exam and the potential pitfalls that he might encounter?

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Question 5

Triangulation uses both quantitative and qualitative measuring designs to assess training effectiveness.

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Triangulation involves using multiple methods, perspectives, or data sources in research to enhance the credibility and validity of the findings, including both quantitative (numerical data) and qualitative (descriptive data) approaches to assess training effectiveness comprehensively.

Question 6

Exam items over some training content can be included even though they were not covered in the training.

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Exam items should cover content that was included in the training to accurately assess the learners' understanding and retention of the material presented. Including content not covered in the training would not provide a fair assessment of learners' knowledge.

Question 7

List and define the three ways behaviors can be assessed.

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Question 8

Writing a variety of different types of exam items will not help the trainer to assess different levels of learning.

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Using a variety of exam item types allows the trainer to assess different levels of learning, including knowledge, comprehension, application, analysis, synthesis, and evaluation, effectively addressing the diverse learning objectives.

Question 9

An analytic level of assessment includes skill ratings for specified behaviors.

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An analytic level of assessment breaks down a task into its component parts and includes skill ratings for each specified behavior, allowing for a detailed analysis of performance.

Question 10

The most common method of assessing affective learning is to develop a survey or questionnaire.

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Surveys or questionnaires are commonly used to assess affective learning because they can effectively gauge attitudes, values, and emotional responses, which are central to affective domain learning outcomes.

Question 11

Computing a cost/benefit ratio translates learning outcomes into benefits for the company or department paying for the training.

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The cost/benefit ratio is a financial metric used to evaluate the effectiveness of an investment, such as training, by comparing the costs incurred to the benefits gained, including improved learning outcomes that can enhance company performance.

Question 12

When using matching questions, the list of stimuli should be longer than eight items and the list of responses should be 50% longer than the list of stimuli.

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The question states that the list of responses should be 50% longer than the list of stimuli. This means that if the list of stimuli has 8 items, the list of responses should have 12 items (8 + 50% of 8 = 12).

Question 13

Maggie, a trainer, is about to be downsized. She is trying to persuade her supervisor that what she does is valuable to the organization. How can she convince her supervisor that her position should not be eliminated?

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Question 14

The training assessment is an evaluation tool that determines if the trainees met their learning objectives.

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Question 15

A repeated measures design would not be helpful in determining the long term effects of a training program.

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A repeated measures design involves measuring the same subjects under different conditions or over time, making it suitable for assessing the long-term effects of a training program by comparing participants' performance before, during, and after the intervention.

Quiz 11: Assessing Learning Objectives