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Assessment And Assessment Of E Pmet Courses Essay

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Assessment Challenges in e-PMET courses

Introduction

Assessment had been driving learners’ behaviors (Frederiksen, 1984) in learning for many decades. In my training school, assessments have been an important aspect in driving what were taught during lessons. The general concept of having an assessment in my training school is to affirm that learning had taken place. In general, summative assessments have been the key choice of appraisal because of the large numbers of attendee in the courses that the school handles and the ease of managing the assessments. Summative assessment is also chosen due to the nature of the skill knowledge transfer of the course.

Military personnel from different departments of the SAF are required to undergo the e-PMET (enhanced Professional Military Education and Training) (Office, 2015) course before taking up a middle management role. In this paper, we will use the assessment methodologies which is administered in the e-PMET course to discuss the on the assessment challenges met in the course.

e-PMET

e-PMET is a suite of program which provides essential professional military knowledge transfer to a professional soldier in the SAF. The suite covers seven functional military topics. These functional topics include military laws and justice, military logistics, human resource for military personnel, finance management, military training, military security and national service (NS) affairs. The course equips middle management personnel in

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