ELIS pre-test and post-test learning objectives

In ELIS courses, you can assign Pre-assessment and Post-assessments items for classes, and then measure the difference between the Pre-assessment and Post-assessments*. This can help you assess if courses are effectively improving targeted knowledge in your program. If you have multiple trainers/teachers teaching the same class you can see the more effective ones over time - their learners show more improvement between the Pre-assessment and Post assessments over time. Also if you make adjustments to content or programs aimed at improving effectiveness, ELIS can help you determine the scope of the improvement. We also have functionality to show how much time learners are spending in the courses- so you can decide whether %5 improvement is worth the time it takes - if it takes extra time - for example.

Pre-Test and Post-Test learning objectives should be added to the course as ordinary learning objectives. Pre-test and post-test learning objectives will be counted with other learning objectives in reports, the benefit is that some reports have a separate column for these learning objectives.

To add pre-test and post-test learning objectives:

1. Go to the Learning Objectives tab of a course description
   
2. Select the Add Element button and add learning objectives
   
3. Add the pre-test and post-test learning objectives.
   

Once learning objectives have been added to the course they can be selected from the drop down menu for the pre-test or post-test fields. To edit these fields select the Edit tab for the course.

Only one learning objective can be selected for each field, and once a learning objective is selected for one field it can't be selected for the other field.

The following images have sample reports that have pre-test and post-test data. The first report is the Individual Course Progress Report. The following list briefly explains some areas of the report. It is optional to include pre-test, post-test, and learning objectives in the course, the settings for this are on the report filter page.

1. Completed Items: This column shows data for learning objectives in the course. The pre-test and post-test data are included in this column because they are learning objectives. The progress bar to the left of this item shows the percentage of learning objectives completed.
2. Pre-test: This column shows the score the user received on the pre-test if there is one for the course.
3. Post-test: This column shows the score the user received on the post-test if they received one.
4. Learning objectives: The learning objectives for the course are displayed here.
5. This course has been completed by the user and they have a grade in ELIS.

The Site Usage Summary Report has pre-test and post-test averages for all the courses on the site.

*By default these are termed "Pre-test" and "Post-test", however it is easy to change these terms (without affecting the functionality:-)) in the Moodle language editor.