Formative Evaluation of an Educational Technology Innovation: Developer's Insights into Assessment Tools for Teaching and Learning

Abstract

Formative evaluations conducted by the development team, focusing on the consequences of choices to be made by the developers, during the development of asTTle, a new ICT2-mediated educational assessment resource, are reported. The evaluations focused on the validity, accuracy, added value, training, and utility standards identified as important in the deployment of educational technology. As a result of in-house utilization of the evaluations, it is argued that users can have confidence that asTTle has demonstrated validity through alignment with the curriculum and classroom practice, that the reporting systems add value to teachers’ work and that accuracy of understanding is enhanced by pr..