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ADDIE Design:
Establish Criterion Reference
Learning Objective: The learner will be able to state why it is important to have a criterion reference as part of the instruction.
All too often instructors proceed with courses that have had all efforts placed into lesson authoring but without a criterion reference.
In this way, neither the instructor, the learners, or those that commissioned the course can be sure of the results.
Without an appropriate measure of the results the future of the instruction might be in jeoplardy, therefore, the importance of measuring results.
Having developed the objectives one can develop the criterion reference. For each objective determine how the behavioral change can be measured.
Note that the development of a criterion reference is the same whether the course was taken online or via traditional methods.
The differences are in how the accomplishment is measured online. Multiple choice questions, simulations, and online problem solving can be used depending on the subject matter and population.
- For each objective determine how the behavior change will be measured
- Online and traditional criterion reference should show equivalent behavioral change
- Cases and simulations may be more realistic tools to measure behavoral change
While criterion reference is always important, it is vital in online learning. How the learners perform in these assessments will be vital to adapting and improving your instruction.
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