Step 2: design performance assesments - Skill Decomposition

5 important questions on Step 2: design performance assesments - Skill Decomposition

What is the name of the relationship between skills on the left-hand side that are perfomed before skills on the right-hand side of the hierarchy?

A temporal relationship

What is the name of the relationship between skills that may be perfomed at the same time?

A simultaneous relationship

What kind of relationship indicates that skills can be performed in any desired order and what does this look like in the skill hierarchy?

A transposable relationship. It looks like a double-headed dotted arrow between the skills.
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What are the three guidelines that are helpful for building a skill hierarchy? To focus on:

  1. Simple versions of the task before analyzing more complex versions of it
  2. Objects and tools used by the task performer in addition to looking at overall performance
  3. On deficiencies in novice performance and thus not only on desired task performance

What can one learn from when a task performer switches in tools used? How can this be used in the skill hierarchy?

This is often an indication that different constituent skills are involved. They thus need to be separated in the skill hierarchy.

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