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Objective Coverage Matrix

Put your objectives beside your tagged questions and see the gaps. The finding worth having is almost never that an objective has too few questions. It is that one has none, which means either the assessment is incomplete or the objective was never really an objective.

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Your objectives, one per line
Your questions, as 'Q1: the objective it tests'
Objectives with no questions1taught and never tested
Objectives4
Questions tagged6
Tags matching nothing1testing something not in the objectives

1 objective has no question behind it. Either the assessment is incomplete or the objective was never really an objective. Both are worth resolving before a reviewer asks, and the second is the more common of the two.

Coverage
Identify the three levels of heat illness2 questions · Q1, Q2
Describe the reporting process1 question · Q3
Apply the shade ruleno questions
Recognize when to call for help2 questions · Q4, Q5

1 question tag matches no objective. Either the wording differs from the objectives list, or the assessment is testing something the course never promised to teach. The second is worth catching: it is where learners fail on material that was never in the objectives.

  • Explain the water schedule

Objectives are matched by their text, ignoring case and surrounding spaces. A tag that differs by a word will show as matching nothing, which is usually a typo rather than a gap, and is worth checking before you go looking for the missing questions.

What this does

Puts your objectives beside your tagged questions and shows which objectives have assessment behind them and which have none.

The finding that matters

Almost never that an objective has too few questions. It is that an objective has none at all, which means either the assessment is incomplete or the objective was never really an objective. The second is the more common of the two, and it is the more useful thing to discover, because the fix is deleting a line rather than writing four questions.

The other direction is worth a look too

Questions tagged to something that is not in your objectives list. Sometimes that is a typo in the wording. Sometimes the assessment is testing material the course never promised to teach, which is where learners fail on something that was never in the objectives and nobody can explain why.

What it will not do

It matches objectives by their text, so a tag differing by a word shows as matching nothing. That is nearly always a typo rather than a gap, and it is worth checking before you go looking for missing questions. It also cannot judge whether a question actually assesses the objective it claims to, which needs a person who knows the subject.

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