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Hierarchical Pretests

In this example diagram, we depict the use of hierarchical pretests to provide a more refined method of identifying the learner's skill deficiencies.  The first pretest contains items that gather high-level information about the learner's understanding of objectives.  If a student does not display a mastery of an objective, he is directed to another more refined pretest that is used to identify specific skills that need to be reviewed.  This type of refined pretesting is accomplished by creating objectives and then adding questions to the assessment to evaluate each objective at the top level.  Inside each objective's topic area, you would create additional objectives, one for each refined skill, and add more specific questions for each skill to the detailed pretests.

The objective and skill scores are "saved" by the InSite module, so you can always refer back to their values later.

In each sequencing rule, a specific objective score is checked to see if it has reached the mastery threshold.  The sequencing language looks like this:

If Skill 1 is
greater than or equal to 80% then
Skip Teach Skill 1

As you can see, if the learner's score is already high enough, the learner will get to skip the part of the module that teaches that skill, which also includes skipping the detailed parts of pretests covering topics they have already mastered.

Another bonus is that your InSite design is much easier to read and manage.

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