Pre & Post Tests

Prove the training changed something

One exam placed twice, before and after, with the comparison done for you.

A pass rate tells you people cleared the bar. It does not tell you whether the training is what got them there, because you never measured what they knew walking in. A pre/post test is one exam placed twice, once before the teaching and once after, and Tivali does the comparison: how far the group moved, which topics moved, and who did not move at all.

Same Exam
Learning Gain
By Topic
Named Learners

What you get

  • One exam, two placements, so questions and marking are identical on both sittings
  • Pass mark, time limit, shuffling and anti-cheat are shared by both halves, because a post-test with an easier pass mark measures nothing
  • The post-test stays locked until the learner has submitted the pre-test, so there is always a baseline to compare against
  • Headline report: average before, average after, the change in points, and the learning gain (how much of the gap to a perfect score the group closed)
  • Only learners who sat both halves count towards the change; someone who sat one is left blank instead of scored zero
  • A by-topic breakdown groups questions by their tags and puts the weakest improvement first
  • A question-by-question table marks each one improved, unchanged, or no comparison
  • Every learner is named with their own before, after and change, so you follow up with the person and not the average
  • Learners get their own before-and-after report, not just the instructor
  • The whole report exports as a PDF, and the workspace dashboard ranks courses by weakest improvement

How it works

  1. 1

    Write the exam once, the same way you write any other exam in Tivali

  2. 2

    Add a Pre/Post Test to a course or a class, pick that exam, and choose where each half sits and when each is open

  3. 3

    Learners sit the pre-test before the content, work through the course, then sit the same test again at the end

  4. 4

    Open the comparison to see the movement per group, per topic, per question and per person, then export it

Common use cases

  • Security awareness training, where the point is fewer people clicking the fake invoice this year than last

  • Compliance refreshers, to show an auditor the training changed behaviour rather than just filling a completion column

  • Onboarding programs, to find the modules new hires already knew and the ones nobody picks up

  • Any training budget that has to be defended with a number at the end of the year

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