What’s the best way to measure learning with scenario-based questions?
Scenario-based questions present learners with realistic situations and ask them to make decisions appropriate for those situations. These questions, sometimes called simulation-like questions, are much more effective than traditional knowledge-based questions because they prepare learners to remember what to do. Scenario-based questions can also be used as tools for assessing learning.
Suppose you’re running a 3-day workshop. Which of the following methods would provide the best measure of how likely it is that learners could remember what they learned as they perform their jobs?
- Provide scenario-based questions at the end of the workshop’s final day.
- Provide scenario-based questions four days after the end of the workshop.
- Provide traditional knowledge-based questions at the workshop’s end and four days afterward.
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