Improving Assessment for Youth
Sole Researcher & Designer • Jan 2019 - May 2019
Key Skills: Co-Design Research • Lo-Fi & Mid-Fi Prototyping • Photoshop Mock-Up Design
Users: Middle and high school students and teachers
How might we:
- design methods of communication between assessors, instructors, and learners, in order to provide assurance of learning?
- design a system that allows students to observe, personalize, and explore the rubrics they are being held to?
- build a system to support educators who need to connect their course content to learning objectives and rubrics?
Product Features
In this project, I tackled the delicate and often flawed relationship between a student and their formal educational assessments. Students’ relationships to assessments, quizzes, and tests have an impact on their emotional well-being and their overall feelings about learning and school. In our global society, the need for standardized assessments and objectives is only growing.
Comprehensive Assessment Authoring
Positive Feedback Dashboard
Interactive Assignment Rubrics
Research
- 1:1 interviews with students ages 9-17
- 1:1 interviews with teachers
- Collaborative design sessions with students & teachers
This is an artifact from the youth co-design session. The activity was to share what they did and didn't like about assessments and brainstorm new ideas for their education.
Mid-fidelity mock-up of the assessment authoring tool design for teachers.
Design
- Ideating based on student and teacher feedback
- Developing User Scenarios for tools
- Sketching and iterating designs for protyping
Mock-ups
- Creating the interfaces for the potential solutions
- Integrating design with existing rubric and assesment tools for LMSs
- Using graphic design software to make mid-fidelity mock-ups