Including a Pretest

In this article, you will learn how to use pretests to assess your learners' prior knowledge and thus their current level of knowledge. This allows you to offer further knowledge appropriate to their learning level.

The Use Case

Learners demonstrate their prior knowledge by completing a pretest included in the course. Based on the individual results, mandatory course content can be converted into optional learning content. This way, learners are presented with a volume of new knowledge that suits them individually. 

Existing knowledge can still be voluntarily revisited, but it is no longer part of the mandatory learning content.

How It Works

Pretests in Knowledgeworker Create are based on the fact that the same question can be used multiple times within a course. If a scored question is answered correctly in the pretest, it is also considered to be answered correctly in the content chapter in which it is used as well. A pretest therefore consists of:

• Questions within chapters that can be tested and completed via the pretest.
• A pretest preceding the content chapters, in which the same questions are used.

If the questions are answered correctly in advance, the learner does not have to complete the course content, as it is already considered completed.

Notes

• Pretests do not work in combination with pooling (random selection).
• Pretests do not work with restrictive navigation, where subsequent chapters are only unlocked after passing the pretest questions.

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