Online Assessment Tools

The two major goals of online assessment at the MTC

• Help the student learn
• Help them guide their personal study

So, we're using assessment at the MTC to see how well we're preparing missionaries to teach the Gospel. The ideal missionary would be able to teach by the power of the Holy Ghost. One question I had was, "How do you measure the missionary's ability to teach with the Spirit?" It is one thing to measure knowledge, another thing to measure doing, and (using Dr. Graham's own terminology) it is another thing to measure being.

How many assessments are given to each Elder or Sister in the MTC?
Do branching surveys -- do they need more effort to analyze the data?

For oral language assessments, what type of feedback doe sthe missionary receive? Is it self evaluation? Does the teacher give feedback? Sending the audio files to graders, allows them
How soon do you start them on these language assessments?

YOu can measure that I know the doctrine, but how do you measure if I am able to recognize the contexts in which it is appropriate to talk about a certain doctrine.

Is it mandatory? It IS in the curriculum, so we expect that people will do it at least once.
Do these assessments become discouraging to anybody?

Attribute assessment is one of the most used assessments at the MTC.