Not only does
Project Mentor teach you the best way to use Microsoft
Project; it tests your knowledge, skills and abilities
as well. Pre-learning tests determine your current
knowledge levels and help you to structure your
learning. Post-learning exercises and examinations test what you
know about Microsoft Project and how you are able to use
Microsoft Project to its greatest potential.
The graph to
the right shows the average pre-learning test (53%) and
post-learning examination (83%) scores across all Project Mentor
users. This indicates an overall knowledge
increase of 30% and a relative knowledge increase of
more than 50% before and after using Project Mentor.
Use pre-learning tests to determine your existing knowledge and
help you structure your learning.
Consolidate your knowledge with post-learning exams.
Use end-of-module exercises to test yourself on what you've
learnt.
Project Mentor's Personal
Learning Plan (or PLP)
helps you structure just what you need to learn,
optimizing the use of precious time in the process. Written by acknowledged
subject matter
experts, concise questions evaluate what you already
know. Sophisticated score weighting advises you of
strengths and weaknesses.
If you are looking to
become a
Microsoft Certified Technical Specialist, use the
Personal Learning Plan to test your knowledge and help you gain this
valuable qualification.
Listed below
you'll see how you can use a Personal Learning Plan to
test your knowledge and help you structure what you need to
learn. You can also
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Test your existing knowledge with a pre-learning assessment
Before you work through lessons and exercises, test
yourself on what you already know. Simply log
on to your PLP and answer a series of
multiple-choice questions. Each question
relates to learning content within the current
module within Project Mentor and carries a weighted
score.
The image to the right
shows the pre-learning test for Module A, with
answers to 2 of the 10 questions displayed.
Your pre-learning assessment provides you with a
stoplight assessment of what you already know:
A green indicator advises you that you have a
good grasp of the concepts taught within a
particular lesson.
A yellow indicator advises that your knowledge
of that lesson's content could be improved upon.
If you have a red indicator, that lesson's
content is probably unfamiliar to you.
Using the indicators, you can then plan and
structure what you learn. You'll save valuable
time by concentrating on subject areas that are
either important to you or are ones that you're
currently not familiar with. What's more, you
can review the answers you gave at any time, helping
you confirm what you are learning.
The image to the right
shows Jane Doe's pre-learning assessment. She
has scored between 50% and 75% for the questions
that relate to lessons A1 and A2 and less than
50% for the questions that relate to lesson A3.
Once you've worked through your chosen lessons and
references, evaluate the knowledge you've gained by
taking a post-learning exam. You'll work
through your questions again, seeing the answers you
gave in the pre-learning assessment. Simply
answer the questions to the best of your knowledge
and then review each answer: If you answered
correctly, you'll be told why an answer is correct.
For any incorrect answers, you'll be told why your
answer is incorrect, what the correct answer is and
why that answer is correct. This invaluable
advice will help you consolidate what you've
learnt.
The image to the right
shows Jane Doe being informed about correct answers
for questions 8 and 10, with question 9 being
incorrect. Note the explanations given beneath
each answer.
At any time you can get an overall assessment of
your current exam performance. Use the
bargraph indicators to see how well you've scored;
module-by-module. To help you understand more
about particular knowledge areas, you can revisit
your questions and answers at any time.
The image to the right
shows Jane Doe's PLP status for modules A and B of
Project Mentor. Jane can see high
post-learning scores against the lessons within
Module A and low pre-learning scores relating to the
lessons that she has still to work through in Module
B.
That the Personal Learning Plan questions within Project Mentor are comparable
in structure and difficulty to the questions within the Microsoft
Technical Specialist curriculum?
How do we know this? Simply because the key content author
of Project Mentor has also developed Microsoft Project exams
in conjunction with Microsoft. To find out more, just
follow the link below:
