- 30 April -
An interactive prototype backed up by related research, validated by student survey responses and discussed with the Karvi team in Helsinki: the national test improvements seem promising. Compared to a set of paper sheets the new digital test ideas could not only improve the reliability of test evaluation results, but also offer a leap for adding value to education in general. The only thing missing is target group feedback. Unfortunately the most important aspect in such an innovative user-based design, but fortunately to be harvested in four days.
An interactive prototype backed up by related research, validated by student survey responses and discussed with the Karvi team in Helsinki: the national test improvements seem promising. Compared to a set of paper sheets the new digital test ideas could not only improve the reliability of test evaluation results, but also offer a leap for adding value to education in general. The only thing missing is target group feedback. Unfortunately the most important aspect in such an innovative user-based design, but fortunately to be harvested in four days.
Each project has its major pain point and ours was thus obviously the lack of reaching our actual target group. When our only planned school visit was still far ahead of us, we had two other options in mind: getting in contact with 9th graders by visiting the youth center in Tampere or by kidnapping them. In the case of the youth center the response was late and stagnant: we asked at the wrong place accordingly. The latter option was considered unethical after all and probably not creating a reliable user-testing context.
Despite this uncontrollable condition, we tried to compensate this with controllable actions: more research, an improved and combined prototype design and discussing our ideas with the testing experts of the Karvi team. This in combination with the feedback we gathered at the Demola testing day, our test aims to show relevance and meaning to the pupil test maker in an appealing and rather personal way. In addition, the educational system in general will move to a more skill-based oriented approach which we try to incorporate by testing the contemporary valued skills as well.
Through a critical and practical view there is way too much test improvement potential to cover at the upcoming school meeting and the time scope of this project. But this is not necessarily a bad sign. It reveals the possibilities Karvi has as a Finnish educational forerunner. And what we cannot achieve in the two weeks we have left, we will document for them to contribute to the interesting field that education and its testing proves to be.
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16 mei is de "final pitch", met een beetje geluk kan ik daar later filmmateriaal van laten zien.
Zit jij in die lamp verstopt? En waarom heeft meisje links Alleen koffie? Of is dit Helsinki?
Ik ben benieuwd wat jullie over tien dagen nog voor elkaar gaan krijgen wat tot nu toe niet gelukt is. Succes
Dear Hub,
Do I, prudently, prudently, get the impression that this project has failed somehow as far as a thoughtful preparation period is concerned? And who is responsable for that? The project leader, the students or some student in particular?
Ik heb de foto gemaakt dus ben niet op de foto te zien (afwezigheid van spiegels en geen selfie).
@oop ik denk dat ik het meest van waarde ben geweest voor de organisatie ;)
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