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Criterion Tests Mager -- Chap. 11 L. Price. Purpose and charcteristics. Tools to find out whether objectives have been achieved Characteristics Item performanceshould match performance in objective Item conditions should match conditions in objective Q - When should tests be drafted?
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Purpose and charcteristics • Tools to find out whether objectives have been achieved • Characteristics • Item performanceshould match performance in objective • Item conditions should match conditions in objective • Q - When should tests be drafted? • Q - Examples of matches?
Evaluation • Should be able to evaluate items with the same criteria as the actual performance • Q - What does it mean when you can’t do this? • Q - What could you do to solve this problem?
How to develop tests • Write a criterion test which asks people to exhibit the performance in each objective • Write items covering a representative variety of the conditions of each performance • Q - How many items should be in a test of an objective? • Q - What sorts of items should be in a test?
Multiple-choice items • Q - When don’t they work? • When the items don’t ……,………,………,…….. • (conditions, performance, criteria) • Q - When do they work? • Q - what types of behaviors?
Practice • What someone would have to do to practice the performance objectives • Q - When should you be trying to figure this out? • Need to practice the ‘correct’ behavior • Q - What’s likely to happen if you don’t know if it’s ‘correct’ or being done ‘correctly’?
Steps • Determine what behavior/performance should be practiced • Specify conditions • Decide how you’ll determine how well the behavior is being performed • Decide how you’ll tell the person that it isn’t good enough • Decide what the person should be doing to learn to do better
Examples • Read the examples and study the checklist • Each team come up with an example and write do answers you’d put in the checklist • Then we’ll discuss the examples
Content • Q - Should all objectives be covered? • With instruction/training? • With relevent practice? • Q - What should be left out? • Prerequisite skills? • What objectives?
Purpose of instruction • To fill the gap between what needs to be known and what is known • To fill a need • Rule of thumb for selecting content • Are they ready to practice this objective yet? • Q - What to we do if they aren’t? • A question to ask yourself • What can you skip or skip over in the instruction?
Module components • Mager recommends a particular structure (see pp. 144-145) for each instruction/training objective • Prepare to practice • Practice • Evaluate • Directions for other trainers • Read the examples (pp. 148-152) • Q - How is this like what Yelon recommends?