I just took the new SYT course, and I believe that one of the questions is incorrect.
The question is: What is a common physical sign that a youth may be experiencing bullying?
None of the answers make sense. I even opened up Scouting America’s website materials in another window and none of the answers were listed.
The ‘correct’ answer to get thru the quiz is ‘Loud talking during group discussions’ but that seems to be the opposite of the answers I am getting from other materials. I would have gone back and rewatched that part of the training, but I didn’t want to ‘reset’ the course and need to take it all over again.
Thoughts?
@TanyaKennedy_Luminat - this would be something to report to your local council for them to enter a member care ticket as there is nobody on the forums who can correct it if wrong.
There has been discussion on the question in other places - these forums are not the place for it. You can talk to council if they want to report it.
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Donovan, you might suggest where the ‘other places’ are. The standard suggestion on these forums is ‘talk to your Council’ which in some cases means nothing will happen.
@DavidSchilpp
For training issues, speak with your Council’s Training Committee Chair (a volunteer) or staff member responsible for training. They have access to National training volunteers and staff.
The other places Donovan mentioned are other forum threads. All have been answered the same way, you need to work this through your Council.
The reason that recommendation is common is that Scounting America has established that there are only two pathways for support for volunteers. Here in the forums, there is volunteer support (scouter-to-scouter and SUAC scouter-to-scouter) for the Scoutbook and SB+ platforms (and to some extent the app, but not as much). There is no tech support here for the other scouting.org platforms including my., training., etc.
The second pathway is through the council professionals, who can file MemberCare tickets with national for SB & SB+, as well as for the various other platforms/subdomains. The SUAC volunteers don’t have any access to the support teams for anything beyond the SB/SB+/app, and therefore can’t assist with those. On a related note, they have mentioned at various times on the posts here that they are subject to NDAs. The exact extents of those are probably themselves covered by the NDAs, but I would hazard the guess that there are some questions they may not be able to answer as to how they know what they know.
I know that there’s been peer-to-peer discussion about the training videos at scouter.com (not a Scouting America affiliated site!), but that may or may not be what Donovan was thinking of.
Tanya
The wrong answers on a multiple choice test are called ‘distractors’. In this case the second and third choices are obvious distractors. However, the first and third are very similar.
This is a good example of a poorly written question.
I taught HS for 30 years (where we took tests on child abuse every year), have a MA in education (where we analyzed questions), and have scored national tests. Whoever was paid to write these was paid a bit too much.
If National really cares about this the question will be dropped by the time I have to take the test.
While the software/website are paid for, most of the content are from volunteers. So, likely $0.00 was paid.
@DavidSchilpp- national is NOT monitoring the forums so sounding off here is meaningless.
This thread is closed - this is a technology forums - questions like this are for council not the forums
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