Online assessment and offline assessment are the main forms of assessment right now. Each type of the two assessments has its own advantages and disavantages. However, we can combine these two types of assessment together by using teacher test maker software. Let’s start the journey by understanding these two assessments.

Online assessment

Online assessment is fairly popular. A lot of people learn and take tests online. This is a symbol of the Information Age.

Real example of using online assessment

Examples of using online assessment include state drivers’ license exams, military training exams, job application exams in the private sector, entrance exams in postsecondary eduction, and certification exams by professional groups.

Benefits of online assessment

There are many potential benefits and advantages associated with computer-based tests including immediate scoring and reporting and greater test security. Additional advantages include flexible test administration schedules, reduced costs compared to handling paper-based test materials, the use of multimedia item types, and the ability to measure response time.

View a sample quiz created by Wondershare QuizCreator

Offline assessment

A computer-based test involves either keyboarding skills or the manipulation of electronic mouse devices, both of which operate at various levels of efficiency. For kids, old people or someone don’t use computer very much, a paper-based test may sound more practical.

Put the online test on paper

Paper-based test is the tracditional form of assessment and it is still very popular today. As a teacher, you may have to spend a lot of time designing amd making a test. One tip for reducing the time is to simplify the formating process. Take the above Flash test as example. We can just fill the preset forms publish the test as a formated Microsoft Word file. The following image shows you the result.

To generate a paper test like this, you just need to select the Microsoft Word file as the publishing option in the publishing window of the teacher test maker–QuizCreator.(Check the following image.)

Combine online assessment with offline assessment

As we have mentioned at the beginning, paper-based and computer-based test both have its own advantage and disavantage. The paper-based test requires a lot of time to do the grading while the computer-based test requires there should be a computer around. However, using a teacher test maker, we can combine these two types of assessment together to achieve a better education effect.

First, issue the paper-based test to your students and let them finish it. Then, put the test online to maximize the education utility of the test. Set the feedback for each question so that your students can learn why they are right or wrong through the feedbacks themselves. In the long run, the Flash quiz test can be a fantastic tool for you students to do a review.

When combining online assessment with offline assessment, we can maxmize the utility of the available resouces. Students can get more knowledge they want, teachers can enjoy more spare time. Teaching can become much more easier. Therefore, take action right now, make your teaching full of flexibility.

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Induction Training is absolutely vital for new employees, regardless of whether they are experienced or not. When come to a new company, new employees are thirsty to know more about their new work place, they want to quickly integrate into the new team. Many companies conduct induction training program to help employees integrate into the work environment. However, achieving the induction training goal within a short period of training time is really difficult. How to help new employees integrate into your new team quickly via induction training? Here are some points.

Make a good induction training plan

Making a good induction training plan is the cornerstone of success. The pre-piece stands, not pre-then waste. As an induction training manager, you should make a elaborate plan based on your company’s specific conditions and new employees’ characteristics before implementation. Training content, form, time, responsible person, cost should be included in your detailed plan.

Training content should be targeted

Induction training should be divided into basic training and professional training. Basic training includes corporate culture, corporate strategy, organizational structure, personnel welfare system, security, fire safety knowledge of common knowledge. Professional training is based on the level of the work responsibilities, work processes, working contents.Basic training can be for all new employees, while professional training should be conducted according to different departments and different types of work. Such training can help new employees quickly adapt to the environment and their new jobs and then improve their job performance.

Training form must be flexible

Make the form of induction training more flexible according to the new employee’s age, educational background, and training content.

• Outward Development – particularly helpful in training new staff’s team spirit and sense of innovation, and tapping new employees’ potential.
• Keynote lecture – invite leaders to conduct seminars and let new employees know company’s profiles to enhance their confidence for their occupation.
• On-site visit – lead new employees to visit representative production units, and make new employees have overall understanding for company operation process.
• Discussion between old and new employees – organize discussions between new employees and old employees. Old employees can share their work experience at company and the new employees ask questions and get answers about more details of the work or company, this can encourage new staff integrate into the company more quickly.

At the same time, training managers should strengthen the innovation of training form. Nowadays, induction training form becomes more diverse, more and more companies conduct E-learning and Mobile-learning to enrich their induction training program. These training forms will encourage new employees change their roles from outsiders into business professionals quickly and integrate into the new team. And it’s also an excellent opportunity to reinforce their decision to come and work for you.

Establish induction training effect feedback evaluation system

As with any type of training, it is important to review and seek feedback after induction training. The evaluation of induction training can be divided into three stages:

The first phase focuses on evaluating appropriateness for the training course content. You can organize all trainees to discuss the content of training course, and learn about their feeling for the training content.

The second stage focuses on the evaluation of new employees’ learning and academic performance. This can be evaluated through examinations: paper-based test is usually the most common way, but for the sake of time-saving and cost-effective, computer-based test will be the most recommending way. Making a test with Wondershare Quiz Maker, asking employees to take the test on computers, and then getting all the scores automatically.

The third stage, evaluation the work performance of the trainees through their supervisors. Through this, you can know how the new employees take their learned into practice. Also, you can learn the effect of induction training in practice.

In-service training is one of the most popular ways to help employees develop their skills in a specific discipline or occupation. This training offers them good chances to make improvements and also companies benefit a lot from it. On the other hand, there are indeed some shortcomings of this on-the-job training. Most typically, in-service training is conducted during a break in the individuals’ work schedule, so it will take up employee’s time for rest and also it is not easy to appoint a fixed time with so many people. Therefore, employers or trainers need to take some flexible training measures.

CBT training offers more freedom.

Computer Based Training (CBT) is used more and more in the big as well as small corporations. It has worked with an astounding rate of success. Distant learning, online courseware sharing system, etc. are robust assistants for learning in service.

From the employer’s perspective, training becomes an additional cost in terms of both time and money. CBT helps employees and also employers solve the problem. Instead of sending employees on a trip across the country to study, companies can host a Web seminar to have the class. The courseware can also be stored on the online sharing systems, thus trainees have the freedom to choose their own proper time to learn. More importantly, in the classroom version, employees sometimes felt like they were drinking from a fire hose — there was so much to take in all at once. People can learn what they need at their own pace with online sharing systems. And it’s easy for them to revisit things if they want.

Video helps.

It is said that learning by both words and sounds is more powerful. If trainers offer video courseware, learners always have a deeper impression compared with the stiff words. Besides, the training videos can be delivered to other employees and reused again and again as long as the information is still valid. Professional trainers are certainly needed, but videos are the next best training resources in the absence of human trainers.

After learning with videos or seminars, group discussion is suggested. The employees can be divided into small groups and it is more flexible. Within their groups, all the members can adjust their discussion time more easily in the comparison with a whole class.

Online test checks the training quality.

Maybe some trainers concern that the freedom offered to employees will reduce the efficiency of training and make them keep a slack hand. The worry is understandable, while there is a way of precaution. Trainers can set the basic class schedule, and announce the final test or exam. The evaluation of training must be the alarm clock and also the motivation for employees.

As for how to make an efficient test there is a suggestion that companies use quiz maker software like QuizCreator to create a quiz for online assessment. It supports strict time limit and instant results processing. This kind of computer based quiz can be taken at any time and trainees needn’t to gather together to take exams. Also the QuizCreator Online offers detailed results data through which trainers will easily know the weaknesses and strong points of every quiz taker. According to the analysis, companies can take further actions.

Training on the job is an important tactic to strengthen employees, but trainers need to take flexible and effective ways to do the training, which will offer workmates more freedom and chances for autonomy learning. Learners love the convenience of a flexible, self-serve course. In-service training is no longer the burden, but the real method for employees to make improvement.

Curtis J. Bonk said in book “The World Is Open: How Web Technology Is Revolutionizing Education”: “Shared online video sites such as YouTube and Teacher Tube are places where researchers and other educators can share their ideas and activities and put them up on display for their world.” We could see that online videos are good resources to help us make online quizzes and tests engaging and meaningful. Especially on YouTube.com, there is even YouTube Edu and hundreds of colleges and universities with their own channels on YouTube which host many useful course resources.

Then, how can you use YouTube videos for your quizzes?

• Use the YouTube video to illustrate quiz questions powerfully
  Generally, video includes more information than words. So, playing a specified YouTube video when appropriate to illustrating quiz questions is an effective way to let quiz-takers understand the question fleetly. Especially, when conducting an online test, videos are quite attractive to make quiz-takers fix attention on these quizzes. The most important is that, you find the proper relevant YouTube video to encourage students to reflect on these questions.
• Use the YouTube video to provide information needed to answer a question
  There are hundreds of colleges and universities with their own channels on YouTube, many courses are hosted on specified channels. If the answers to the questions can be found out from one of the YouTube video courses, please get the course video and then use it as feedback or explanations to assigned questions. Usually, students prefer to watch such videos to find the answers and learn knowledge more than plain text as explanation. For most quiz creators, you can’t use YouTube video in feedbacks. However, you can use a blank page to integrate with YouTube video. Wondeshare QuizCreator has a blank page feature. You can add the YouTube video on the blank page and set your question feedback option to branch to the blank page.
• Use the YouTube video as a quiz question
  For some questions that are difficult to describe with words or some questions are only about movie clips, etc, using YouTube video as the quiz questions are necessary. Integrate the YouTube video and ask students to answer the questions based on the content of the video after viewing the video. Students will tend to do those practice tests or quizzes a little bit more readily.

How to get these videos for your quizzes?

Well, there are number of ways you can download YouTube videos from online. Just paste the address of YouTube video you want to http://keepvid.com/, you will get the YouTube immediately on your local disk. If you want some other shared online videos other than YouTube video, here are 10 ways to download shared online videos that can help: http://www.tothepc.com/archives/10-ways-to-download-online-videos/

Integrate videos into quizzes

Videos downloaded from YouTube are usually in FLV format, you can integrate these YouTube videos into quizzes via some quiz software, like QuizCreator and QuizMaker.

With YouTube, the Internet is a television. The Internet is home to programmed instruction as well as spontaneous learning. Actually, besides YouTube video you also can integrate other shared online videos for your quizzes, such as CNN Video, MIT World, Yahoo! Video, Google Video, Discovery Channel Videos, National Geographic Video, Hulu, TeacherTube, Link TV, NomadsLand, and so much more! There are a lot more creative uses for YouTube videos in quizzes, just make your smart online quizzes right now.

Math test is a very important part of the math learning process. However, it is students’ worst nightmare. As a teacher, making an effective math test will be a good way to keep students far away from nightmare in learning math and help students make progress. This article will show you some tips to make effective tests.

Identify the goal of math testing

Generally, math testing is intended to measure students’ math related knowledge, skills or aptitudes. With math testing, teachers can find the weakness from students, evaluate the effect of math learning and teaching, and finally improve students’ learning experience.

Tips for writing a good math test questions

Writing effective questions takes time and practice. Well-designed test provides an accurate measure of students’ math knowledge, here are some strategies and tips to write a good math test questions:

• Keep stems and statements as short as possible and use clear, concise language.
• For multiple choice questions, randomly distribute the correct answer options so that there is not a clear pattern that becomes obvious to the student.
• Make sure that answers are clear to avoid confusion and difficulty grading.

Tools to make math test for computer based test or paper test

Utilizing test tools to make tests is an easy way to help you assessment work more smoothly and simply. In general, math test is administered on paper (paper based test) or on the computer (computer based test).

For paper based test, Microsoft Word would be enough to make math test with its powerful math equation editor. However, formatting the Word math test will be a little fussy, some paper based test tools provide an easy way to create printable math test, such as Math Quiz Creator.

Computer based test which makes use of a computer or an equivalent electronic device to administer testing is more feasible and popular because it is time-saving and money-saving. To make tests for computer based test, there are multiple quiz/test tools to choose from, but for the part of math features supported, QuizCreator will be a good math test tool whether from its powerful feature or ease of use.

Grade math test and analyze test results

Grading the math test is a necessity in the process of assessment work. For paper based test, grading testing papers is really a taxing work. Luckily, for computer base test, many quiz tools can help teachers grade the test automatically and instantly. It is easy to get the complex grading work done.

After grading the test, analyzing test results plays an important role in assessment work. It will let you know more details of this testing and you can do further improvement. Summarizing test papers will cost a lot of time, many teachers even overlook such analysis work. However, the aspect of grading the test is right the advantage of computer based test. All the test results are automatically graded after students taking the test, especially for some free quiz results tracking system supplied by test makers, such as QuizCreator Online for QuizCreator. QuizCreator Online can provide elaborate results analysis by questions, score or students with tables and graphics.

Optimize your testing work and maximize learning effect

The analysis of test results gives you more insightful viewpoint. You can find out the weakness in students, optimize the writing of test questions, teaching methods, teaching contents and make changes, and finally optimize the learning experience and enhance the math knowledge of the students.

High turnover is a head-breaking problem for companies. For many companies, new-hires leave before their probationary period is ended. If your company has a high turnover rate than your competitor, you will lose your good employees to your competitors. Also, your business will also suffer from high costs of attracting, recruiting and training the new staff. So, new hire training is the first important thing to reduce the rate of turnover and enhance the acculturation and productivity of new employees in companies.

Benefits of new hire training

New hires walk in with a fresh view of company and an intrinsic motivation to contribute to their job positions immediately. They start their first day with both excitement and worry. They want to excel in their new jobs, but they do not know where to start.

So, new hire training is necessary. The more background knowledge new hires have about how one workgroup interrelates with ancillary departments, the more new hires will understand his or her impact on the company. Benefits of new hire training:

• Reduce new-hires’ fears.
• Increase the understanding of company, such as culture, company structure, etc.
• Increase new hires productivity.
• Reduce new employee turnover.

Training Content

Training new hires isn’t easy, yet it should not be left to chance. You should set down a complete training program for new hire training, including training content, training schedule, training effects assessment, etc. Generally, your new hire training program should provide the following contents:

• Company information introduction: culture, structure, product and service information, etc.
• Company rules and regulations, policies and procedures.
• Position description and requirements.
• Office applications operation training.

Besides these, provide company manual to new hires, it can be extra gifts for them to learn more about your company.

Evaluate new-hire training effectiveness

Evaluating new-hire training effectiveness is important to ensure improvements for the new-hire training courses and to monitor training standards in your company. Methods of assessment are different for various training contents.

For evaluating the training effects of company information introduction and company rules and regulations, policies and procedures, computer-based test is the first choice for assessment in terms of money-saving and time-saving. No papers printed, no pens needed, and no hand-marking work – all the quiz results are graded automatically after the quiz takers taking the test. For conducting computer-based test, QuizCreator is a good assistant which provides 9 question types with multimedia supported and 3 quiz results tracking options (E-mail tracking, QuizCreator Online tracking and LMS tracking). Another unique feature is that QuizCreator can generate insightful and direct analysis reports for quiz results. Then trainers can realize the weakness and reinforce the specified knowledge to the new hires.

For evaluating the training effects of position description and requirements, you can evaluate in the process of daily work and coach new hires instantly when they encounter trouble in order to make sure new hires to perform successfully in their new position.

For evaluating the training effects of office applications operation, assign appointed projects to new hires and evaluate the results they do and then correct their wrong operations according to their work.

Summary

To develop a great business, you need to begin all new-hires with an outstanding training experience and tap their potential in their work. A well planned new hire integration process has been proven to increase productivity and retention. By showing an upfront commitment to them, new hires will be confident in their decision to join your organization, motivated and equipped to produce their best work immediately, and more likely to stay. Invest in them early and they’ll stay longer.