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What Is a Skills Taxonomy? And Why Is Your Competency Model Obsolete?

Degreed

Assessing, growing, measuring and cultivating skills enables your talent and your company to succeed. A skills taxonomy can help you make sense of what your people can offer as you work toward achieving business goals. Competencies When you’re creating a skills taxonomy, It’s important to distinguish between skills and competencies.

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5 common eLearning assessment mistakes (and how to fix them)

BrightCarbon

We’re back with a brand-spanking new blog post all about eLearning assessments. When we work with subject matter experts to develop multiple-choice questions we see the same mistakes again and again that make a big impact on the validity and reliability of assessments. These scores can be high or low, as long as they’re consistent.

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Designing effective eLearning assessments Part 1: Assess for success

BrightCarbon

Welcome to our series on eLearning assessments! In these four posts we’ll cover a lot of ground, taking you on a journey through the theory behind effective eLearning assessments and practical tips for building assessments it in three different authoring tools: Microsoft PowerPoint, Articulate Rise, and Articulate Storyline.

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How to Create Effective Test Questions

CourseArc

Since online learning often separates teachers from learners across time and distance, we rely on evaluations – in the form of tests, quizzes and assessments – to judge each student’s successful comprehension of the content (and to judge how well the course designers presented their information). But what makes a good test question?

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The RETAIN Model for Creating Effective Courses

TalentLMS

It is not uncommon to address eLearning content as games, especially when game-like elements like scores and time-based assessments are added to the program. It’s amazing how time and effort effective, teaching becomes when eLearning environments use the correct images and multimedia. Provide plenty of options to choose from.

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The RETAIN Model for Creating Effective Courses

TalentLMS

It is not uncommon to address eLearning content as games, especially when game-like elements like scores and time-based assessments are added to the program. It’s amazing how time and effort effective, teaching becomes when eLearning environments use the correct images and multimedia. Provide plenty of options to choose from.

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Question Writing & Assessment Design

ID Mentors

Writing effective questions is both art and science. Simply put, what it implies is that that if the same candidate took the test again (a day, week or month later) he/she would get a test score similar to what they scored in the first attempt. Question-writing is an integral part of the instructional design process.