Assess learning

How to Do It

Provide feedback Confirmatory: knowledge of correct response
  Corrective and remedial
  Informative feedback
  Analytical feedback
  Enrichment feedback
  Self-generated feedback
Provide practice Massed practice session
  Distributed practice sessions
  Overlearning
  Apply in real world or simulation (near-transfer)
  Change context (far transfer)
  Vary number of practice items
Testing Pretest for prior knowledge
  Pretest for prerequisite skills and knowledge
  Pretest for terminal skills and knowledge
  Embedded questions
  Objective-referenced performance
  Norm-referenced performance
  Incidental learning

 


© Albert L. Ingram, Ph.D. Revised: February 13, 2008