Hey, welcome back to build winning courses. This is step seven, assessing for mastery. And this is lesson four scoring. So let's talk a little bit about scoring any assessments that you create. First of all, what does it mean to be competent? Well, if you fulfill the objectives you set and if you're driven to the level of the verbs you've used, and if you've tested according to the verbs that you've set up, competency means that the learner can demonstrate that they can do what you said they can do, or that they know what you said they would know as a result of your training, and that the answers they give will line up with the answers you intended them to give.

Typically, most people that use instructional systems design of some sort as a backbone for their course, expect 80% competence, they expect their learners to get eight out of 10 questions correct. Or to demonstrate mastery of a skill or a technique. eight out of 10 times 80 percents, a good mastering level to use Now here are a couple of points about audience and how scoring might vary. Let's say that you're just doing a course because you think it's great fun, you want to do it, it's a legacy, you don't have a need for people to demonstrate competency, you might have a much lower lower threshold 60% might be okay. Or you could give graded assessments for people got assessments of more value, or apparently worth more to them. If they paid more, scored higher and mastered more content.

You might have a certification where demonstration of knowledge and skill is not only required for the person to be certified. It's also a measure of your reputation as a vendor, you'll want the certification scoring process to be more robust, more rigorous, you might expect 90% on certain things and 80% on others. You might build in remediation. So scoring is not just did you get it right or did you get it wrong? It's a How much of the content Did you master? And where are the gaps so that you as an instructional design person can go back and close those gaps in your training, you can offer remediation, you learn a lot when you find over time that everybody's missing the same questions, that tells you that the question might benefit from being rewritten, or that the contents not being covered in a way that fulfills the objective.

Again, 80% is the probably the typical average that people want 50% is never going to be good enough. So have at it with scoring, look up, forced choice tests, look up assessing and adult learning and you'll find additional resources that'll be very helpful to you see in the next lesson.