[Xerte] Instructional Challenge: Crash Report Screening

[Julian Tenney]

How would you decide how many practice items the learner would need to
attain mastery? In my experience they aren't given enough. In reality,
what are the consequences of getting things wrong?

 

Seems you could present a series of reports with MCQs for the decision
(essentially you are making a one of many choice, but could do it as a
drag and drop, dragging the file icon to various drop points). Present
some sort of feedback that links their errors to the real-life
consequences? Then you almost have a simulation where they start the
game with some measures of their performance, with each question having
an impact on some sort of visual representation of the performance? I
don't know the detail well enough, but maybe you start with a pot of
$1000 and each time you screw up, you lose some? Maybe there are several
things you can impact: money / profit, customer satisfaction,
efficiency, etc?

 

From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Peter
Pretorius
Sent: Friday, February 19, 2010 4:45 AM
To: Xerte discussion list
Subject: [Xerte] Instructional Challenge: Crash Report Screening

 

In today's particularly enjoyable conversation thread titled "non
coders", Julian said:  "I would love to see more discussion about design
content, what makes good interactivity and all that stuff ..."

I'm personally fascinated by instructional strategy.  In line with
Julian's comments, I once came across a research study which documented
numerous trials and measurements of compared instruction using different
mediums.   The conclusion?  The medium (instructor led,
computer-assisted, or video instruction, etc.) didn't matter.  The
medium used didn't significantly influence the effectiveness of the
instruction.  What did matter, what did make a difference, was the
strategy.

My suggestion is that we might begin an occasional game of sorts, for
those of us with an interest in strategy (coders and non coders alike).
It would be a game in which we would put forth, as they occur to us,
different "instructional challenges" for consideration.  We might then
brainstorm or suggest how Xerte might be used to tackle these
challenges.  To keep the non coders readily in the conversation, I'd
encourage discussion contributors to:

1.      First consider how XOT (or Page Templates) might be used to
address the challenge, without adding any script.  For those skilled at
coding, this might feel like we've tied both hands behind your back.
Then again, maybe that's useful.

2.      Second, let the coders cut loose.  If more could be done with a
little script, tell us how you might start off with XOT, or Page
Templates, and then enhance it with script.

To illustrate how an "Instructional Challenge" might be presented, I'll
start off.  What follows is a true, current task of mine, that I've
considered using Xerte for.  My thought is to outline it here.  I'll try
to provide enough detail to convey the complexity, while keeping my
description of it as simple as I can.

The instructional challenge is this:

Instructional Objective
Learners will be able to screen (i.e. review) vehicle accident (crash)
reports, and route them appropriately.


Relevant Details

*         The crash reports are pre-printed, 4-page forms that must be
completed and submitted anytime a significant motor vehicle accident
occurs.  Here's a URL link to the form:
www.mass.gov/rmv/forms/21278.pdf 

*         The learners are the employees who must review these crash
reports and determine whether to ...

o    Return them to the sender

o    Route them to "Fatals"; if a death was involved

o    Send them for Data Entry

o    Discard them (e.g. if the report was not required to be filed)


Task Criteria

1.      Send Back (to the sender), if X, Y, or Z fields are empty

2.      Route to "Fatals"; if the number "1" is listed in a specific
field; or if a death is mentioned in the Narrative (written description
of the crash)

3.      Send to Data Entry, if all is OK

4.      Discard, if damage was less than $1,000 US, and there were no
injuries

5.      The Narrative on Page 3 is a written description of the
accident.  Use it to backfill empty fields, and to provide more detail.

6.      If Region A indicates "X", then look at Section 4, Column G.  If
that indicates 2, 3, 4, or 7, then Discard.


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So ....  How would you tackle it with XOT or Page Templates?  If you're
a coder, is/are there things you might do with a little script?  

Cheers,
Pete

Instructional Designer
Boston, MA, USA

P.S.  I'm an American, so I really have no clue at all what "Cheers"
means; or why folks use the expression to finish letters.  I just used
it here, to try to fit in.  To me, it's just a bar where Ted Danson
worked.  For a long, long time.  

P.P.S.  I'm equally confused by "Kind Regards", "Warm Regards", and
their seemingly competitive siblings "Kindest Regards" and "Warmest
Regards", used I can only imagine by those trying to one-up those who
used the former.  ;)

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