Evaluating Learner Competencies Flashcards
You are a technical trainer for your organization. You are coaching Beth, a new technical trainer, on the various goals yoru company has for training. What is the fundamental goal of all technical training?
A. To help learners change their behavior
B. To maximize profits
C. To educate people to do their jobs better
D. To maximize a return on investment
A.
Which one of the following statements best describes a basic learner assessment of competence?
A. A learner assessment is a review of how well the trainer has taught the material
B. A learner assessment is a review of how the learners have changed their behavior.
C. A learner assessment determines how well the learners have retained the course information
D. A learner assessment determines the cost effectiveness of the course.
C.
If you’re tasked with creating a learner assessment, what must your assessment plan include?
A. Scope of what’s to be assessed based on the learning goals.
B. Cost of what’s to be assessed based on investment
C. Schedule for assessing the learner behavior
D. Audience to be assessed
A.
Mark is designed a technical training class for his public training company. What challenges will Mark have when creating an assessment of learner of learner competence for this type of training event, considering his company type?
A. There shouldn’t be any challenges, as all learners will have the same learning goals.
B. Learners from different organizations will likely have different learning goals.
C. Each organization will need to review Mark’s learning assessment.
D. Learners won’t learn the same, as each learner may come from a different organization.
B.
Which one of the following is an example of an outcome assessment?
A. Learner evaluation
B. Learner evaluation throughout the course
C. Final examination
D. Instructor performance review
C.
What term refers to an exam where learners show or prove their retention by answering in-depth question?
A. Show exam
B. Proof exam
C. Final exam
D. Learning exam
A.
You are a technical trainer for your organization. At the end of your hardware technology course you require the participants to complete an exercise that utilizes all of the topics you’ve taught. The final exercise tests the learners’ mastery of the topics and their ability to use the information you’ve taught in a simulated environment. What type of assessment is this?
A. Mastery
B. Show
C. Usage
D. Demonstration
C.
Mary is creating an assessment for her learners in a technical course. Which one of the following statements best describes the type of assessment Mary should create for her technical class?
A. The assessment should reflect the content of the course.
B. The assessment should reflect the content of the course and the level of expected learning
C. The assessment should reflect the level of expected learning and the level of actual learning.
D. The assessment should reflect the learning objectives.
B.
Martha is teaching a technical class on how to create a LAN network. The course is primary designed for advanced technical users and has many hands-on exercises to help learners discover knowledge. Based on this information, which one of the following is the best type of learner assessment Martha should use?
A. Paper-based final exam
B. Computer-based adaptive question
C. Usage exam
D. Show exam
C.
Mark has created a final exam for his database management course. What should Mark include as part of his final exam?
A. Explanations for why the questions are correct or incorrect
B. References for learners based on the answers they’ve selected
C. Opportunities for learners to retake the examination
D. Study sessions and objectives for learners to prepare to pass the examination
A.
Mary is teaching a technical class for her organization. In the class she’s tracking learner progress throughout the course as part of learners assessment rather than utilizing a final exam at the end of the course. What type of assessment is Mary utilizing?
A. Embedded assessment
B. Formalized assessment
C. Classroom assessment
D. Learner-progression assessment
A.
What is another term for a formative assessment?
A. Learner-progression
B. Embedded assessment
C. Hyper-assessment
D. Progressive assessment
B.
Gary is a technical trainer for his organization, and he’s elected to use embedded assessments in his technical classes. With this assessment type, what must Gary do to ensure that learners understand the importance of the assessment approach?
A. Communicate how the final exam will support the goals of the learning.
B. Communicate the learning objectives for each module in the technical seminar.
C. Communicate the exam objectives for each module examination
D. Communicate the learning milestones and the expectations of the organization.
B.
Wendy is teaching a 16-week college course on computer hardware. As part of her course she’s requiring participants to keep a lessons-learned summation of each topic the course covered. This summation will accomplish all of the following except for which one?
A. Helps participants encapsulate what’s been taught
B. Serves as an embedded assessment for the course
C. Helps the participants formulate questions based on what they’ve learned
D. Helps Wendy determine who is paying attention in class
D.
You are technical trainer for your organization and you’re using a lessons-learned approach to assessing learning knowledge. you notice one of your learners has some incorrect information in their lessons-learned documentation. What’s the best approach to take in this scenario?
A. Count the incorrect statement as a negative score
B. Count the incorrect statement as a negative score relative to the amount of correct information
C. Correct the mistake without embarrassing the learner
D. Advise the learner to correct the mistake
C.
