Evaluate and create

Task Description: Using last year's attendance figures for courses offered by the company, decide which courses should be offered next year. Write an e-mail to Ann Simpson with your recommendation, including as attachments any tables or charts that support your position.

Test takers would need to identify the on-site courses with the best attendance based on the supervisor's reports. They would then to write up their recommendation and attach supporting documentation. Scoring models would be created to focus on the skills and knowledge deemed most relevant to assess for a particular population. For example, one might be interested in the extent to which test takers were able to support their recommendation with evidence from the original supervisor's e-mails, the sophistication of supporting documentation, or the test taker's ability to use software to create tables or graphs.