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Questionmark White Papers
| Assessments Through the Learning Process |
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The cornerstone of developing successful educational, training, and certification materials is the effective use of assessments. Now organisations have a real opportunity to use technology to make the process far more effective. This Questionmark white paper explains how you can use assessments to improve the learning and measurement processes.
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| Alignment, Impact and Measurement with the A-model |
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This white paper introduces the A-model, a framework to help individuals and organizations clarify the goals, objectives and human performance issues of their work and design systematic assessment systems to evaluate progress towards their goals.
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| How Questionmark Aids ISO 10667 Compliance |
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ISO 10667 is an international standard covering procedures and methods in assessment within workplace settings (corporations and government organisations). This white paper briefly describes ISO 10667 and explains how using Questionmark to manage, author, deliver and report on assessments can help you comply with the standard.
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| Security of Questionmark’s OnDemand Service |
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Questionmark’s OnDemand Service provides reliable, scalable and cost-effective option for running assessments. Security is a key component of this service. This paper explains multiple layers of security, including physical safeguards, access control, environmental management, uninterruptible power supply and firewalls to appropriately restrict access.
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| Delivering Assessments Safely and Securely |
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Distinguishing between the various delivery and security requirements for each style of assessment is essential. Over-engineering low-stakes assessments can result in unnecessary costs and wasted time. Under-engineering high-stakes assessments can disrupt people’s lives. This Questionmark white paper discusses the issues and suggests suitable technologies for each level of assessment. |
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| Item Analysis Analytics |
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This paper is based on a popular series of posts about Item Analysis Analytics from the Questionmark blog. It provides instruction on the principles of item analysis and how to apply them using the Questionmark™ Perception™ assessment management system.
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| Learning and Assessment on SharePoint |
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Using Questionmark Perception with Microsoft SharePoint for Formative, Summative and Diagnostic Assessments, Social Learning and Regulatory Compliance: This paper describes the synergies between Microsoft SharePoint and Questionmark Perception. It explores where assessments can be useful within a SharePoint system and describes how you can use Questionmark Perception assessments within SharePoint to produce value for your organization.
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| Embedded Assessments: Building Knowledge Checks, Surveys and Other Assessments into Learning Materials |
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The ability to place assessments within many different contexts – embedding them in wikis, blogs and portals, for instance – changes their potential uses and brings them directly into the learning process. This paper will provide an overview of embedded assessments, explain their value to learners and instructors, share examples of where such assessments can be used and consider how they might help shape the future of learning.
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Using Questionmark Perception to Help Ensure Compliance with Regulatory Principles for
e-Assessment |
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This paper discusses how awarding bodies can use Questionmark Perception to help ensure compliance with the standards outlined in the “Regulatory principles for e-assessment” document developed by the Qualification and Curriculum Authority (QCA) in collaboration with other official bodies. In response to the increasing use of technology in the authoring, scheduling, delivery, and reporting of assessments the regulators of England, Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland produced the Regulatory principles for e-assessment releasing it in April 2007.
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| Providing Feedback to Learners |
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Giving learners feedback when they take assessments is a valuable way to help them make cognitive connections and help them retrieve correct information in the future. This research paper, licensed by Questionmark and produced by Dr. Will Thalheimer of Work-Learning Research, examines the latest research on this topic and provides practical recommendations.The report is written in two parts.
- Part 1 is written for a general audience and provides perspective on feedback's place in learning and recommendations for practice.
- Part 2 contains a research references and review that supports the recommendations made in Part 1.
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| Using Online Assessment for Compliance |
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Assessments can be essential to a credible and defensible compliance strategy. This paper explains how assessments can help organisations document their effectiveness in delivering compliance training and – in addition - play a role in improving organisational performance. The paper describes the various ways in which organisations can use assessments to demonstrate that their employees understand regulatory standards. |
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| Using Questionmark Perception to Help Ensure Compliance with ANSI/ISO/IEC 17024:2003 |
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This paper discusses how licensure/certification organizations can use Questionmark Perception to help ensure compliance with the international standard "ANSI/ISO/IEC 17024: Conformity assessment - General requirements for bodies operating certification of persons". Compliance with 17024 is an important step in terms of ensuring the legal defensibility of an assessment program. Examples and tips are provided to help organizations understand and take measures to comply with all aspects of 17024. |
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The Learning Benefits of Questions |
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Dr. Will Thalheimer of Work-Learning Research reveals the learning benefits of asking questions. This paper references research that shows that questions can produce significant learning and performance benefits, potentially improving learning by 150% or more. |
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| Defensible Assessments: What You Need to Know |
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This paper explores defensibility in the area of assessment, describing how Questionmark Perception can be used to help ensure the defensibility of an assessment program. This paper outlines the key issues around defensibility and explores relevant standards and best practices. Additionally, the paper describes how to ensure and evaluate defensibility, and discusses the role Questionmark Perception software can play.
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