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Otago InForm: online evaluation request system

Published: 02 July 2012 Publication History

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Evaluation questionnaires can be an invaluable resource for teachers, allowing them to gauge student understanding of a course or the effectiveness of a particular approach to teaching. Questionnaire feedback can be used for a wide range of purposes -- including departmental reviews, staff confirmation and promotion processes, and performance appraisal -- and as such, staff members must be able to tailor questionnaires to satisfy their specific requirements. Until recently, the process for ordering a student evaluation form at the University of Otago has been almost exclusively paper-based, requiring staff to fill in request forms by hand and reference various supplementary documents to indicate their preferred set of evaluation questions. Despite the fact that it has become well-established over the past ten years, such a system is unnecessarily complex for academic staff and difficult to administer. Following the recommendations of a review panel, evaluation administration staff decided that the implementation of an online request system would result in easier and more accurate ordering of student evaluations. Aiming for widespread adoption of the new system, a user-centred design approach was used to translate the existing process into the digital realm, simplifying tasks where possible while maintaining staff expectations of how the system should work.

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  • (2022)Student Request System Prototype Using Low-Code Development Platform2022 International Conference on Algorithms, Data Mining, and Information Technology (ADMIT)10.1109/ADMIT57209.2022.00038(190-194)Online publication date: Sep-2022

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CHINZ '12: Proceedings of the 13th International Conference of the NZ Chapter of the ACM's Special Interest Group on Human-Computer Interaction
July 2012
110 pages
ISBN:9781450314749
DOI:10.1145/2379256

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Published: 02 July 2012

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  1. compatibility
  2. complexity
  3. online
  4. paper-based
  5. student evaluation
  6. user-centred design

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  • (2022)Student Request System Prototype Using Low-Code Development Platform2022 International Conference on Algorithms, Data Mining, and Information Technology (ADMIT)10.1109/ADMIT57209.2022.00038(190-194)Online publication date: Sep-2022

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