Building Assessments (>_<)

You’ve spent weeks developing an amazing course and now it is time to create the assessments. Nothing kills an award-winning course like a poorly developed assessment.

There is more to creating a good assessment than pulling the main points from the course content and turning them into multiple choice questions. Unfortunately, many of us do not leave ourselves the time to thoroughly craft assessments, don’t involve the SMEs like we did with the content creation, and just plain don’t know how to create strong assessments.

A good assessment should not only check the learners’ knowledge of the content, it should also test the learners’ ability to apply the content into real life. This means scenario-based questions. This means involving the SMEs to create realistic scenarios. This means leaving enough time!

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