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Assessments Through the Learning Process

  • 10 Aug 2016
  • 11:30 AM - 1:30 PM
  • Scott Conference Center, 6450 Pine Street, Omaha, Nebraska 68106

Registration

  • For ATD Lincoln Members.

Registration is closed


ATD Nebraska presents:

 

Assessments Through the Learning Process

Presenter: Eric Shepherd
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Assessments play a vital role in measuring employees’ knowledge, skills and attitudes. Effective assessments also help organizations identify learning needs, manage talent, monitor performance and ensure regulatory compliance. 

This interactive presentation will explore the different types of assessments and explain their respective applications, with particular emphasis on how trainers and instructional designers can use assessments such as surveys, quizzes, tests and exams to enhance the learning process.  It will also examine the connection between organizational needs and quality assessment practices.

Key concepts that will be addressed

  • Using questions and feedback to enhance learning and decrease forgetting
  • Types of assessments used before, during and following learning activities
  • Setting pass/fail scores for criterion-referenced assessments
  • Interpreting item (question) and test statistics to determine reliability
  • Basic principles for making assessments support organizational goals
  •  Emerging practices including mobile delivery and assessment for informal learning initiatives

By the end of the program, participants will be able to:

  • Identify business drivers for learning and assessment
  • Distinguish among different assessment types and their uses before, during and after learning
  • Understand the impact of assessments and feedback on learning and retention

The following skills will be  

  • Analyzing needs and proposing solutions – by showing how assessments can be used for needs analysis and how data from assessments can offer needed perspective for problem solving
  • Thinking strategically – by relating the use of assessments to measure knowledge, skills and attitudes to the tasks, resources, job roles, tactics and plans that support organizational 
  • Planning and implementing projects – by identifying the components of effective assessment-related projects and programs and explaining how to implement them
  • Driving results – by offering tips and techniques for making assessments align with and support organizational needs


Meet The Speaker

Eric Shepherd

Eric Shepherd, who maintains a blog at http://blog.eric.info, leads Questionmark in providing testing and assessment technologies and services to businesses, test publishers, credentialing organizations, government agencies, educational institutions and other organizations around the world. Recognized as one of the world’s authorities on assessment software, Eric has championed the use of online assessments for learning, qualifying and performing. He serves on the Board of Directors of the HR-XML Consortium and was instrumental in the development of the IMS Question and Test Interoperability (IMS QTI) standard. He has also served on the Association of Test Publisher's board and was the first chairman of ATP’s European Division. He has advised corporations, government departments, universities, schools and technical standards bodies on the deployment of online assessments and is a sought-after speaker for conferences and seminars around the world.

Schedule Of Events

11:30 AM – 12:00 PM: Networking/Meal
12:00 PM – 1:30 PM: Program 

Registration:

Members:
$20 through Thursday, August 4
$25 from Friday, August 5 - Tuesday, August 9
$35 day of program

Non-members: $35

Event Contact:

Amber Hutchinson
vpprogramming@atdnebraska.org

Cancellation Policy: No-shows will be billed. To avoid a no-show billing, please cancel by 5:00 PM CST on Monday, August 8, 2016, by calling 402-850-6710.



ATD Nebraska, P.O. Box 85793 Lincoln, NE 68501-5793     (402) 850-6710   |   contactus@atdnebraska.org

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