Using Measurement to Promote Learning Effectiveness

What’s the relationship between measurement and learning effectiveness? When most L&D practitioners think about measurement and learning effectiveness, they think about outcomes measures. Examples include: Course enrollment and completion -- although, as we all recognize, this metric does not say anything about learning effectiveness, just that the training was completed (or not). Level I (smile …

Does Question Order Affect Exam Difficulty?

In my last blog post I made the assertion that randomizing questions does not affect exam difficulty. In other words, if Person A gets a set of exam questions in one order and Person B gets the same questions but in a different order, I asserted that both exams will be of the same difficulty. …