I am not discounting the idea of adapting the classification training as I agree, unless you have an experienced SME the subject is often ‘Death by PowerPoint’ and neither the instructor nor the cadets engage with it.
That said, similarly to the likes of martial arts (where coloured belts are used to signify development) having a progressive training syllabus that allows cadets to develop I feel is key. There is such much more that we do in this organisation that could give a cadet the opportunity to move through the classification syllabus but in a more engaging way i.e. Cyber could move away from a stand alone badge to form part of a classification badge possibly?
We are seeing that our age groups are much younger than 10+ years ago but the classification syllabus is still working on the basis that we still have a large amount of cadets staying past their 18th birthday which is just not the case.
Exactly. I spend a lot of time on Google, poring over data sheets, or with industry and HSE guidance documents. A little too much because I’m both nerdy and (through a certain degree of anxiety) somewhat hyper-fixated on the correct answer. BUT I need to know what I’m looking for, where to find it, and how to recognise and parse what is irrelevant or incorrect.
These are all good points about online research and open book tests teaching life skills rather than being considered ‘cheating’; however, these skills are not being taught when the exams can be passed by simply typing the exam questions into Google.
To teach these skills, the tests would need to be redesigned so that answers required proper research or someone would have to litter the internet with a minefield of wrong answers for the those being examined to have to trawl through and assess which sources were reliable.
I wonder if this philosophy of giving the cadets the training material to self-study, only for them to not self-study and sit the exam and google all the answers, led to Pearson pulling the plug on the BTEC?
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Yeah, right, nothing listed on the Heat Illness Prevention trg modules. The modules won’t load (using Chrome - worked for other trg) & alternative browsers.
Who do I report an issue to please? I’ve searched all over Learn & elsewhere = nothing.
