Let’s suppose you are a trainer and you conduct training sessions within your organization.
At the end of the training or sometime later, you give your audience an assessment. They fill it out, give it back to you, and you take all the assessments and tabulate them. Because none of this information is of any use until after the fact, it makes life even more of a challenge when you want to design more complex trainings!
For example, when you conduct multiple sessions in one day, each connected to and building on the one before it, you truly don’t know if those you’ve trained are prepared for each successive session. Of course, if they’re as prepared as you want them to be, you know their minds won’t shut off during later sessions. They’ll be eager for and engaged in each successive session. And at the conclusion of the training they’ll realize the cumulative effect you’ve intended.
Assessment Technologies gives workplace trainers TurningPoint to gather attendee information while a training session is taking place:
1. We teach you how to use our software specifically designed to set up and transmit the assessment, evaluation, poll, or other content to those you are training. If you are a PowerPoint user, then 85% of the learning curve is done!
2. We provide you a Plug-n-Play RF USB receiver that allows you and your audience to transmit content within a 200 foot radius. You won’t need to string cables around, and you won’t need an Internet connection.
3. We provide you credit card size RF ResponseCard keypads that you will give to each person you are training, and they will use them to transmit information back to your laptop or desktop computer. And when they transmit it, it comes to you right away—automatically tabulated with all the information that’s been transmitted already (whether it is responses to an evaluation or assessment or answers to a poll or survey) and is immediately displayed on the screen for all to see. Nothing reinforces learning like seeing the correct or incorrect answer from an immediate reply.
So you’re able to:
1. In the moment, gauge what’s being absorbed and what isn’t and make adjustments as you see fit; and
2. Improve the short and long retention of the training curricula you’ve worked hard to develop!