Writing Assessment Questions (Items)Innovative Design Taskforce

Project Background

• Client: International Paper (Enterprise Learning Services division)

• Project Name: Writing Assessment Questions

• Target Audience: Content Developers

Instructional Problem

• Diverse group of learners serving as contentdevelopers

• Client required two features:1) Product should flow with previous tutorial2) Accessible content for learners

• Learners being prepared for in-house training

• Connecting the previous tutorial with the tutorial being revised

• Demonstrating how learning objectives and assessment questions align • Gagne’s Nine Events of Instruction • Providing instruction that demonstrated:

1) Components of assessment questions 2) Examples of each type of questions3) Practice and Feedback

Addressing the Problem

Unique Features

• Flowing with the Writing Learning Objectives tutorial

• Levels of System Feedback

• Visual representation of Alignment

Product Demo

Product Changes

Based on the SME Review and the One-on-One trials, 5 main changes were made to the product:

1. Step by step progression to reduce learning curve.

2. Increased corrective feedback in practice sections

3. Increased font size and spacing for improved visualization

4. Clear separation between Overview and Introduction

5. Revision to the language used (reducing technicality)

Project Management 101

• Importance of rapid prototyping

• Managing project and development

• Changing “Ideally we would…” for “In this case we need to…”

• Definition of tasks and roles