What am I trying to test?

SCENARIO 1

Ms Roy, a grade 8 teacher, has just finished a chapter on the topic of climate change with her students. She now needs to assess whether her students can recall the causes behind rapid climatic change and analyse the relationship between human activity and climate change.

SCENARIO 2

Mr Smith, a learning and development manager for a corporate company has the responsibility of training new employees. For the same, he has decided to create a course on understanding and managing work-related stress. At the end of the course, he has to assess how the new employees can apply the knowledge acquired through the course in different contexts and recall the opportunities provided to employees for coping with stress.

So how did Ms Roy and Mr Smith decide what they needed to assess?

The solution is going back to the learning objectives.

But how are learning objectives and assessments interconnected?