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John Kleeman is joined by assessment luminary, Dylan Wiliam, Emeritus Professor of Educational Assessment at University College London. Dylan’s academic work is focused on the use of assessment to support learning. A leader in formative assessment, he explains that testing can go beyond just measuring a student’s learning as it can also be used to [...]
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John Kleeman is joined by assessment luminary, Dylan Wiliam, Emeritus Professor of Educational Assessment at University College London. Dylan’s academic work is focused on the use of assessment to support learning. A leader in formative assessment, he explains that testing can go beyond just measuring a student’s learning as it can also be used to [...]
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John Kleeman is joined by assessment luminary, Isabel Nisbet, Affiliated Lecturer at the University of Cambridge. Isabel discusses the two fundamentals of fairness, the importance of public confidence in educational assessment and shares her thoughts on the steady push for test-optional college admissions in the US. [...]
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John Kleeman is joined by assessment luminary, Will Thalheimer, Principal at TiER1. Will details his 30-year journey to becoming a learning expert, which started as an instructional designer, trainer, and simulation architect. He explains which key findings from learning science we should put into practice, the four pillars of learning effectiveness, and the best way [...]
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John Kleeman is joined by assessment luminary Siddhartha Gupta, CEO of Mercer | Mettl. Over the course of his career, Sid held key leadership positions at some of the most prestigious global IT companies. It was during that time that he discovered the niche of assessments and eventually moved to Mercer | Mettl. Sid shares [...]
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John Kleeman is joined by assessment luminary Suzanne Heiob, the Global Certification Product Owner of SAP, who began her journey with the company as a student. Among her responsibilities, she oversees the product roadmap and keeps an eye on market trends to ensure that they are adopted into the program. Suzanne shares her thoughts on [...]
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Posted by John Kleeman Podcasts are a great way to communicate. They can be more informal than a webinar, have more information than a blog post and are a much more fun way to learn than an e-book. You can listen to them in your home, when travelling or whenever convenient. Unfortunately few of us [...]
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Posted by Kristin Bernor Welcome to Questionmark’s new podcast series, “Unlocking the Potential of Assessments.” This monthly series delves into creating, delivering and reporting on valid and reliable assessments. “Unlocking the Potential of Assessments” will offer advice and thought leadership to those just starting out with assessments, those who have been in the industry at [...]
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Posted by Julie Delazyn The growing emphasis on performance improvement — of which training is just a part — calls for new strategies for assessment and evaluation. Measurement and evaluation specialist Dr. Bruce C. Aaron has devoted a lot of thought to this. His white paper, Alignment, Impact and Measurement with the A-model, describes a framework for aligning assessment and evaluation with an [...]
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Posted by Joan Phaup We recently celebrated a major expansion of our cloud-based Questionmark OnDemand service with the addition of Questionmark’s European Data Centre to the service we have been providing for some time in the United States. Wanting to learn more about the reasons for adding the new data centre, I spoke with Questionmark Chairman John Kleeman about the transition [...]
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Posted by Joan Phaup I’m eagerly looking forward to the keynote presentation Charles Jennings will deliver at the Questionmark 2013 Users Conference on The Challenge of Measuring Informal and Workplace Learning. Charles is one of the world’s leading thinkers and practitioners in learning and development — currently head of Duntroon Associates and previously Chief Learning Officer for Reuters and [...]
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Posted by Joan Phaup Andrew Jackson University, a distance education school based in Birmingham, Alabama, faced a big question several years ago: How could students take tests the same way they pursued their studies — off campus, via the internet — with the same level of security they would encounter in a test center? Jarrod Morgan, who [...]
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Posted by Joan Phaup With the Questionmark Users Conference now less than a month away, it’s a good time to check out the conference agenda and — if you haven’t already done so — to sign up for three great days of learning and networking in New Orleans March 20 – 23. Two high points [...]
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Posted by Joan Phaup Key themes of the Questionmark Users Conference March 20 – 23 include the growing importance of informal and social learning — as reflected by the 70+20+10 model — and the role of assessment in performance improvement and talent management. It’s clear that new strategies for assessment and evaluations are needed within [...]
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Posted by Joan Phaup I had a great time the other day chatting with Dr. Jane Bozarth, our keynote speaker for the Questionmark 2012 Users Conference in New Orleans March 20 – 23. Jane, whose degrees include a doctorate in Training and Development, will be speaking from her extensive experience as a training practitioner for more than 20 [...]
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Posted by Joan Phaup How do learning organizations demonstrate the business value of their initiatives? I was delighted to speak recently with Art Dobrucki, director of learning strategy and performance at Farmers Insurance Group, about how he and his colleagues approach this question. We talked about how important it is to start out by identifying the business problem to be [...]
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