Comments on: LTGR Ep. #79: “The Power of Data: Assessment and Evaluation” http://www.ltgreenroom.org/episodes/95 The LT Green Room is a podcast for Renewal, Retooling and Conversations about Learning. It is co-hosted by Susan Manning and Dan Balzer and its show topics are often drawn from members of LearningTimes.org, a free online community of education and training professionals from across the globe. The LT Green Room gives listeners (and ourselves) an opportunity to reflect on what they're doing behind the scene that results in an effective learning experience. Tue, 31 Jan 2012 01:06:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: Suzette Westhoff http://www.ltgreenroom.org/episodes/95#comment-239704 Suzette Westhoff Sun, 10 Apr 2011 17:35:43 +0000 http://www.ltgreenroom.org/episodes/95#comment-239704 From a business standpoint, it seems most cost effective to have assessment and evaluation drive the creation of objectives. If the client knows the desire knowledge or performance outcomes of the training, it seems to make sense to design the goals and objectives to meet the outcomes. Given my thinking, are there reasons that instructional design should not start with assessment and evaluation in mind? By basing instructional design on assessment outcomes, does the designer risk teaching to the test? -Student in Susan’s Instructional Strategies & Assessment Methods class From a business standpoint, it seems most cost effective to have assessment and evaluation drive the creation of objectives. If the client knows the desire knowledge or performance outcomes of the training, it seems to make sense to design the goals and objectives to meet the outcomes.

Given my thinking, are there reasons that instructional design should not start with assessment and evaluation in mind? By basing instructional design on assessment outcomes, does the designer risk teaching to the test?

-Student in Susan’s Instructional Strategies & Assessment Methods class

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