H. Questions in General 1. Lengthy Questions Minimize the length of questions. Questions which are lengthy will confuse students. Your choice of words should fit the educational level of the students; otherwise, they may know the material, but are not able to demonstrate it on the test. 2. Easy Questions Do not ask questions which answer themselves or have an obvious answer. 3. Trick Questions Do not ask questions which "trick" the student, you want to know how much they have learned, not whether or not they can figure out some tricky wording. 4. Performance Objectives Above all else you have got to make sure your: If you are asking questions about "nice to know stuff" not specifically related to what the objective(s) the student had to know, then you have opened yourself to liability for having an invalid test and perhaps failing a student unnecessarily, which might just cost them their job. Constructing Effective Performance Objectives Performance Objectives Terminal Performance Objective Given a clearly identified public safety related training topic, the public safety training instructor will write Terminal Performance and Enabling Objectives, in accordance with of Objectives and the American Society for Training and Bloom’s Taxonomy Development (ASTD) Learning System. Enabling Objectives
H. Questions in General 1. Lengthy Questions Minimize the length of questions. Questions which are lengthy will confuse students. Your choice of words should fit the educational level of the students; otherwise, they may know the material, but are not able to demonstrate it on the test. 2. Easy Questions Do not ask questions which answer themselves or have an obvious answer. 3. Trick Questions Do not ask questions which "trick" the student, you want to know how much they have learned, not whether or not they can figure out some tricky wording. 4. Performance Objectives Above all else you have got to make sure your: If you are asking questions about "nice to know stuff" not specifically related to what the objective(s) the student had to know, then you have opened yourself to liability for having an invalid test and perhaps failing a student unnecessarily, which might just cost them their job. Constructing Effective Performance Objectives Performance Objectives Terminal Performance Objective Given a clearly identified public safety related training topic, the public safety training instructor will write Terminal Performance and Enabling Objectives, in accordance with Bloom’s Taxonomy of Objectives and the American Society for Training and Development (ASTD) Learning System. Enabling Objectives
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