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Formative and summative assessment drives learning
Dr. Yosaitis suggests that although educators
often don’t want to admit it, assessment drives
learning. “Right now, assessment is very often
treated as something different than learning, and
they need to be connected,” Dr. Yosaitis
explains. “So often, people learn because they
know they are going to be assessed. Sometimes
in adult education we expect the learner to go
out and learn for the sake of learning, but our
learners are busy and already on the path to
becoming experts.”
Dr. Yosaitis adds that assessment should be a
part of education and that it needs to be both
formative and summative to be effective. He
explains that a system should be created to track
where the student is along the lines from novice
to mastery. “I think bringing assessment to the
forefront, making it the ‘why’ to the problem,
and having it follow the learner from novice to
mastery is going to be the most exciting thing
coming up in education.”
“I think bringing assessment to the forefront,
making it the ‘why’ to the problem, and having it
follow the learner from novice to mastery is going to
be the most exciting thing coming up in education.”
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Right-sized learning maximizes the impact of education
In evaluating training and development, SiTEL
uses the cognitive load theory to consider how
much a learner can hold in his or her head and
how the brain processes that information.
Innovators at SiTEL coined the term “right-sized
learning” to explain their process of examining
what amount of information they can give the
learner that will have the most impact. “It’s not
that shorter or more complete information is
better. There has to be a right amount of
learning to maximize the impact that the
education is going to have on the learner,” Dr.
Yosaitis explains.
“We have to keep the educational environment
friendly for every adult learner or they won’t
come back for more,” Dr. Yosaitis adds. “Adult
learners can easily burn out, especially with
online learning. If you’re not doing it right,
people will dread the next experience.
Alternatively, if you give them information in the
right size that is pertinent to what they’re doing,
they’ll come back for more.” He explains that
this is particularly crucial in the healthcare
industry because people must remain learners
their entire careers.
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