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Questionnaires or Checklists

Questionnaires or checklists can be completed by the learner themselves or by other people who can give an informed opinion as to the learner's competence. It is important not to make these too detailed. You should home in on the key competences only.

Here's an example of a checklist which might be used to establish a learner's competence in using applications under Microsoft Windows.

Please tick the box which best describes your ability to carry out each of the tasks below:

Task I have done this often and am confident about my ability I have done this quite a few times and I would probalby be able to do this in most situations I have done this occasionally and would need some reminders about how to do it again I have never done this
Run an application from the desktop or by using the Start menu

Create a new folder

Open a document and use the Save and Save As options

Save a document in different formats

Print a document

Cut, copy and paste within a document, between documents and between applications


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