{"id":81878,"date":"2022-07-11T08:58:58","date_gmt":"2022-07-11T12:58:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/trainingindustry.com\/?post_type=magazine&p=81878"},"modified":"2022-07-11T15:06:11","modified_gmt":"2022-07-11T19:06:11","slug":"digital-solutions-to-improve-the-assessment-experience","status":"publish","type":"magazine","link":"https:\/\/trainingindustry.com\/magazine\/summer-2022\/digital-solutions-to-improve-the-assessment-experience\/","title":{"rendered":"Digital Solutions to Improve the Assessment Experience"},"author":34,"featured_media":82117,"template":"","tags":[30262,28987,30260,30261,30259,2592],"class_list":["post-81878","magazine","type-magazine","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-adaptive-digital-assessment","tag-corporate-digital-learning","tag-digital-assessment","tag-gamified-learner-assessment","tag-improving-the-assessment-experience","tag-learner-experience","global_topic_tax-measurement-and-analytics","global_topic_tax-personalization-and-learning-pathways","magazine_issue_tax-summer-2022","magazine_article_type_tax-feature"],"acf":{"sponsored":false,"gated":false,"gated_content_type":"","file_attachment":null,"gated_content":"","form_instruction_header":"To access the full article, please fill out the form below:","pardot_html_embed":"","author_override":true,"author_name":"Federico Fantacone ","author_image":"","author_bio":"Federico Fantacone began his professional adventure as an L&D manager and then as a learning innovation manager. He is an LXP solution architect and a gamification\/simulation game designer. Under the pseudonym \"Learning Punk,\" Federico Fantacone created the first Italian podcast focused on corporate digital learning: \"Storie di Apprendimento Straordinario<\/a>.\u201d","excerpt":"In three words, effective learning is continuous, immediate and self-directed, while traditional training models are discontinuous, delayed and centralized.","main_content":"Corporate digital learning today is guided by modern learners who learn and close their knowledge and skills gaps autonomously, when needed. In three words, effective learning is continuous, immediate and self-directed, while traditional training models are discontinuous, delayed and centralized.\r\n\r\nThis requires an urgent repositioning of learning and development (L&D). Among other things, learning leaders should focus more on skills assessment and less on content delivery. Skills assessment is certainly not a new topic, but three factors are driving it back to the top of our priority list:\r\n
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    1. Corporate learning is becoming increasingly skill-centric (and especially power skill<\/a>-centric), because of the need to accelerate upskilling, reskilling and retooling processes. Learning initiatives will need to future-proof people and skills by defining tomorrow's skills today. However, it is not possible to carry out efficient and data-based training without a skills analysis and monitoring of the skills gaps<\/a> within the organization.<\/li>\r\n \t
    2. More specifically, it is urgent to assess the degree of digital skills and competence within the organization, which is a deciding factor in enabling digital transformation projects.<\/li>\r\n \t
    3. Finally, digital technologies now make it possible to design skills assessment solutions that are much more engaging in terms of the learner's experience and more effective from the point of view of governance or development of the corporate skills infrastructure.<\/li>\r\n<\/ol>\r\n<\/li>\r\n<\/ol>\r\nUpstream of all this, those who design skills assessments should not forget that the experience must be authentic and meaningful, rather than artificial and mechanical. Let's explore four distinctive features of innovative assessment solutions: gamified, adaptive, authentic and artificial intelligence (AI)-powered.\r\n

      Gamified Assessments<\/h2>\r\nThe combination of assessment and gamification is very effective, especially in the talent acquisition process: When it comes to bringing Gen Z on board, gamification<\/a> is a very appropriate language for engagement. Indeed, we know that everyone likes to play, regardless of age. A gamified assessment is designed with game mechanics to produce dynamics of involvement, commitment and achievement, as well as emotional responses of pleasure, tension and passion, with a high release of dopamine.\r\n\r\nThe assessment becomes a game divided into challenges that allow the learner to earn points, pass levels, earn badges and find useful resources for solving more complex puzzles, and progress on the leaderboard. The \u201cGame Over\u201d screen proclaims the winners (and losers) and gives each a skill profile and a skills gap analysis, perhaps with a pinch of humor and irony.\r\n

      Adaptive Assessments<\/h2>\r\nAdaptive assessments are based on a sophisticated algorithm that automatically and continuously modifies the sequence of questions and their degree of difficulty, based on the previous answers. In other words, it is the assessment that adapts to the user, and not vice versa. In practice, the assessment behaves like an expert and flexible teacher.\r\n\r\nFor example, the assessment could start by asking the participant a difficult first question. If the answer is wrong, the algorithm will choose a second, easier question. If the answer is correct, it will return the user to a question of medium difficulty. The higher the difficulty level of the question, the higher the score for the correct answer.\r\n\r\nThe advantages are twofold: a more reliable and precise result, and a personalized and engaging assessment experience for the learner.","full_width":false,"content_band":[{"acf_fc_layout":"social_callout","blockquote":"The combination of assessment and gamification is very effective, especially in the talent acquisition process."},{"acf_fc_layout":"content_area","wysiwyg":"

      Authentic Assessments<\/h2>\r\nAssessments can involve different cognitive domains. They can measure the memorization of information, levels of understanding or application to realistic cases. Assessments can also go beyond<\/a> remembering and understanding, toward more complex domains such as application and, above all, analysis and evaluation.\r\n\r\nFor more advanced cognitive domains, traditional and \u201ccold\u201d learning tests should be supplemented with or replaced by authentic assessment solutions. An authentic assessment<\/a> is immersive and job-related, and it requires us to demonstrate what we know. An assessment is defined as \u201cauthentic\u201d if it has the following characteristics:\r\n