AET 535
Interview Presentation on Assessments
Learning Team B
Dr. Greg Thomas
9/30/13

Donna Romano
Name: Paula R. Boblitz
Title: Nurse Coordinator at University of Virginia's Neuro-Oncology Department
Highest level education - Bachelor's degree in Nursing
Organization name - Unversity of Virginia Years of teaching - 30 years
Type of learning environment - Within the hospital- hands on
What kind of assessments are used? We use different assessments. We verbally ask the students questions as well as we watch them work. Questionairres are sent out to the different departments that they are working in to assess their abilities and their work ethic. They are also giving tests about what they did for the week and what they thought could be better or was good about what they did. They are also asked to asses their teaching and themselves.
What information do you want your learner to retain? We are hoping that they retain all that they learn. They will be nurses that will work with patients in sometimes life emergiencies. We want them to know what to do and how to do it. If the patient can be saved, we want them to have the ability to do it.
How are assessments changes implemented? Once all the data is compiled and read through we take in account what everyone has said and critiqued. We can make changes immediately once all are in agreement. There are 5 of us that make that decision based on the facts of the tests, the journals and the questionairres.

Are assessments result reported to the institution? The assessments are reported to the school as well as to the hospital. We will not pass or hire someone that is deemed not ready. Just passing all the cirrcculum does not make you a good nurse. What you do once you are in the job and how you react is a big portion of whether you pass or not. Knowing the material is not all of it. How often? These assessments are ongoing on a daily basis.
Which assessment works better for your institution authentic or traditional? We use both. Both are needed to assess our students.
What do you teach? I teach the nursing students once they have progressed from the classroom to the floor of the hosptial. I assign them to a floor and a team of nurses. I also go around and check up on them as well. We are a teaching hospital as well as a research facility. How old are your students? They range in ages from 18 to 54 years of age. The oldest we have had so far was 54 years old.
What are ways to ensure that the students are retaining the information taught? Working hands on in the hospital. This ensures us that they have learned from all the weeks of the classroom.
How do you know that the students are learning the information needed to complete the course/training? When we watch them work, and we get the feedback from the doctors and the nursing staff. They are never alone in the hospital when they are on the floor.
How do you incorporate real life with the curriculum? Working in the hospital gives them all the real life they can handle.
Shawn Roche
Name: Lori Siczewicz
Title: Professor / Educational Technology Director
Highest level education – Master’s Degree in Education Organization name - Erie Community College Years of teaching - 27 years
Type of learning environment - Traditional Classroom / Online
What kind of assessments are used? Use a variety of assessments with traditional tests with essays and multiple choice questions as well has hands on problem solving assessments to test the skills learned in the class and see how the students adapt to adversity with real life situations.
What information do you want your learner to retain? Retaining information is important in the classroom and the essential information is the most important to retain and be able to have the concepts and ideas readily available and recall the information. But it is also important to give the students as much information they can handle and hope they can retain all the information learned not just the material but from others in the classroom.
How are assessments changes implemented? The instructor has the freedom to change assessments and how they are given but at the end of the year the administration looks at the grades and how effective the assessments and class were and try and develop more in-depth assessments and implement areas where there were deficiencies.

Are assessments result reported to the institution? All the assessments results are reported to the institutions which allows for every instructor to work together and develop better classrooms and share their knowledge with each other and to determine how effective their teaching was and is.
Which assessment works better for your institution authentic or traditional? Authentic assessments work better in my classroom it test the real life situations the teachers will face in their jobs and help develop and hone skills that a traditional test do not allow you to see.
What do you teach? I teach undergraduate and adult students who are also teachers in how they can better implement technology into the classroom. How old are your students? It is a wide range of undergrad students to adult students with an age range of around 19 years old to 60 years old.
What are ways to ensure that the students are retaining the information taught? Assessments play a big part in ensuring retention of information and not just testing the knowledge of a topic but mixing up questions and assignments to incorporate everything learned in class and building up skills.
How do you know that the students are learning the information needed to complete the course/training? Observations and assessments you can see what they are doing well with and where there are areas that need work and taking all that information and determine how well the students have done and if they have done what is needed to complete the course.
How do you incorporate real life with the curriculum? I try and incorporate as much real life into the course and relate the information to real life situations and use those to teach and test the students.

Karla Montgomery
Name: Susan Weinstein
Title: Corporate trainer of Educators for Farouk Systems (Chi)
Highest level education: Master’s in Business
Organization name: Farouk Systems
Years of teaching: 10
Type of learning environment: Boardrooms, Meeting rooms, all in person
What kind of assessments is used?
Different types of assessments are used there is traditional assessments used at the end and during the class in the form of multiple choice and fill in the blank after a class. Also hands on demonstrations and presentations in forms of interview, power points are done at the completion of class. The students have e to actually teach a class on the information they have learned because this is their job.
What information do you want your learner to retain?
The students are to retain all information they are being taught and be able to relay the information effectively to their students they will be instructing in the salons and at the beauty schools and at premier hair shows.
How are assessments changes implemented?
At the end of each and every class the students are giving a survey or a questionnaire and they are reviewed along with the test to see if any gaps are there. Also after each class the student gives the same survey /questionnaire is given and reviewed to see if the information is being retained. Every three months if there are any changes or if the information doesn’t seem to be retained properly then changes are made.

Are assessments result reported to the institution? How often?
Assessments are reported ever month to the institution or in this case the head office education department.

Which assessment works better for your institution authentic or traditional?
Both traditional because we can easily use the multiple choice and fill in the blank assessment to see if they get it. But authentic as well because the student is allowed to present the information in a very creative way when they have to do their video presentation which is sent to home office.
What do you teach?
Product knowledge, salon business building, color techniques and color theory, chemical services theory and techniques, hair cutting techniques advance level. How old are your students?
18 to 65
What are ways to ensure that the students are retaining the information taught?
We see it by their presentation, by how many salons request then to teach or to come back, and by the surveys and questionnaires that their learners fill out. In the surveys and questionnaires the learners that they teach are able to tell us if they fill the class was good and if they learned anything.

How do you know that the students are learning the information needed to complete the course/training?
By their assessments and presentations.

How do you incorporate real life with the curriculum?
They have to do clinical work with the information they have learned on a live model.
Susan Patton
I interviewed Jim Robertson who is a manager/trainer for the Braum’s Dairy Store. He has earned a bachelor’s in business and a master’s in restaurant and food service. Jim has had 25 years experience in training and developing employees.

What do you teach and how old are your students?
I teach employees how to properly make and serve customers using standards set by company and they are generally from the ages of 18-25
What kind of assessments are used?
In this company we use booklets and test questions that are multiple choice and fill in the blank. When we hire managers they must go through an extensive training course that ensures they understand the proper methods of storing, handling, preparing, and serving safe foods. Managers must undergo a ServSafe Certification course followed by a state mandated quiz.
What information do you want your learner to retain?
I am looking for the employees to know the menu and how to make the sundaes, sandwiches, and learning the computer so that they may effectively take orders and handle customer situations effectively.
How are assessments changes implemented?
Corporate generally decides when things need to be changed. Most of the time this occurs when there are new products added to the menu or when it seems that the trainees are unable to pass the test.
Which assessment works better for your institution, authentic or traditional?
Traditional setting would be most likely in this company. Since the tests we have include multiple choice and fill in the blank.
What are ways to ensure that the students are retaining the information taught?
When new employees are entering the company we ensure that each one watches videos which tell them how the company works and the proper methods in making sundaes, sandwiches, fries, and how to operate the cash registers. Once they have watched them they then read the pamphlets and then followed by a test which is immediately graded to determine how much they have retained. If there are any questions that were answered incorrectly then I will cover these with them and then show them with a demonstration followed by them doing the same thing afterwards. I will have them retake the test in the case that they were unable to pass it the first time after a day of working and having hands on experience.
How do you know that the students are learning the information needed to complete the course/training?
Because they can pass the tests with at least 80%.
How do you incorporate real life with the curriculum?
I work to incorporate real life by showing them and explaining to them how it relates to the position held and the amount of interactions with the customers. Using this method, I have found that many employees are able to excel and become a star employee.