Enhanced Individual Assessment
Blogging today from the awesome Learning 2011 conference in Orlando! SO much sunnier than Seattle was when I left.
This morning’s first session was Sarah Bloomfield from Google who talked about, among other things, a different view of assessment. In the corporate learning biz, the focus for assessment (Level 2) is most often individual assessment…which is to say: having the learner react somehow from their own precious brain to see if they learned what they were supposed to learn. Of course, this enables us to know what was accomplished from a learning perspective. (Yay for checking knowledge transfer off the list!).
From a business perspective however, employees are often required to perform tasks with available resources (or as part of a group). So part of the conversation in the session was assessment of the “enhanced individual” or what in grade school (if I recall) was called an “open-book test”. In essence, assessing learners in more real-life situations with the resources that they would have on the job.
Now just then when I wrote “on the job” my inner Kirkpatrick (don’t we all have one?) thought well, if it’s on the job, it’s clearly a Level 3! Yay, you can do both!
But Sarah’s point was that individual assessment is of use to the learning team but not so much to the business. So then I wonder what an enhanced individual or group assessment would look like?
~Geek~
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