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Student Assessment: Designing for the End-User, NOT the Auditor

Great assessment design involves achieving two essential goals!

• Firstly, resources that meet the relevant standards must be created and developed.
• Secondly, writing documents that are easy for the student to understand, interpret and use.

For the most part it seems that so many of us spend so much of our time and energy getting the first part right that we waste essential resources on what we are doing it all for - the END USER.

The level of effort that a person must invest to use something - often referred to as ‘tension’ - is a reliable predictor of consumer satisfaction.  Too often in assessment design the need for the student to easily navigate and understand the document, is placed secondary to the importance of meeting the standards of the unit.

It must be understood that meeting the standards of the unit is the platform of assessment design and doesn't quite stop there.

In this webinar, our amazing VET expert, Mr. Tony Kirton, will discuss with you how you can balance both the needs of the student and those of the auditor. 

Specifically, Tony will explore:

• the importance of designing assessments with the end-user experience in mind
• how instructional design principles, like Cognitive Load Theory can be applied to assessment design and why they make a difference, and
• how to format your resources in a way that makes them easier to navigate.

This webinar is for those looking for ways of improving the assessment experience of their students through a range of design techniques. Fundamental assessment design relating to meeting the standards of the unit is not discussed. Instead, the webinar focuses on techniques including formatting and layout to improve the end-user experience.

Key topics Tony will be including during this session are:

• Designing assessment with the end user experience in mind
• How instructional design principles can be applied to assessment
• Formatting your resources to make them easier to navigate
• Practical examples in action and what to avoid

So join Tony for this enlightening session on 17th August at 11:00am (AEST) which takes the focus of your assessment design beyond the principles of compliance and brings our focus back in line with what it is all about .... our students!

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Date posted Jul 8, 2021