Corporate Training Assessment
Project Overview
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The company, a small for-profit education business providing cognitive skills coaching, wanted to explore options for converting aspects of its in-person new hire training into digital training resources. Currently, new hire training requires two weeks of full-day live trainings, costing the company thousands of dollars in addition to lost availability of training staff who would typically be coaching students.
Objectives & Scope
For this project, the business objectives were to evaluate the needs (materials, tools, and cost) for converting curriculum training to digital resources.
Following the Backwards Model of instructional design, learning outcomes were defined up front, and assessments were developed to ensure success. Training modules were outlined, but because of the exploratory nature of the project, it was determined that business objectives would be met with the creation of two deliverables: 1) a sample assessment and 2) an outline of assessments and training modules.
Limitations
Due to the exploratory nature of the project, certain limitations impacted the quality of results:
1) The sample assessment was considered a "demo" and would require further editing for practical use
2) The entire project was allotted 3 days for completion, including planning, writing, storyboarding, filming, and editing
Tools
Storyboarding: Bamboo Slate & Adobe Illustrator
Filming: Nexus 5X camera
Editing: Camtasia
Quiz Tool: EdPuzzle.com
Storyboarding & Script
Assessment:
SCENE 1
Learning Objective: Know how to introduce Symbol Search to a client for the first time.
Question 1: Should the coach provide more instructions? (No)
A) Yes
B) No
Responses:
No) Great work! The coach has covered the essentials. They’re ready to move on!
Yes) Watch the clip again. If the coach gives all the introductory instructions listed in the Program Manual, they should move on.
SCENE 2
Learning Objective: Know when and how to intervene during Symbol Search.
Question 2: What should you tell the Client? (C)
A) “Oops—you missed one!”
B) “Nice job moving left to right!”
C) “Make sure you’re keeping your marker back until you find one!”
D) (Singing) “Now, this is a story all about how my life got flipped-turned upside down…”
Responses:
A) It’s okay if the client misses symbols. As long as they keep searching for the next ones and don’t go back for the ones they miss, they’re following instructions. In this case, there’s a more urgent issue to address. Watch the clip again and see if you can identify it!
B) It’s great to praise clients for following instructions (particularly if they have had difficulty with instructions in the past), but there’s a more urgent issue to address. Watch the clip again and see if you can identify it!
C) Definitely! It’s important to identify issues like improper tracking early on so the client gets the most out of the procedure.
D) It’s important to start loading with hurdles and super sets early on in Symbol Search, but you’ll want to introduce the concept to your client before your first time loading. In this case, there’s a more urgent issue to address. Watch the clip again and see if you can identify it!
