Features of e-asTTle
For information about the features of e-asTTle, please click on the links below.
1. Apart from being web-based, how will e-asTTle differ from asTTle?
2. How did you decide which features to include?
4. Will e-asTTle be available in te reo Māori as well as English?
5. Some claim that asTTle is hard and time consuming to use. How will e-asTTle be better?
6. I've heard that e-asTTle is more than an assessment tool. Is that true – what else can it do?
- 1. Apart from being web-based, how will e-asTTle differ from asTTle?
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Some of the features being scoped include enabling:
- students to complete tests online
- students to be assessed in a new test area
- teachers to create shorter (10 minute) or longer (60 minute) tests depending on its purpose
- teachers to choose whether e-asTTle selects the difficulty of the assessment based on information collected as the student completes the assessment (this is also referred to as computer-adaptive testing)
- teachers to choose whether closed-ended questions are marked automatically
- teachers to mark open-ended questions online with access to correct examples
- teachers and students to access a wider range of reports and analyses
- schools to have a seamless integration between e-asTTle and their student management system.
- 2. How did you decide which features to include?
We asked teachers and schools for feedback about asTTle and the improvements they'd like. The new features are all based on their suggestions. We have met with schools to gain face-to-face feedback and encouraged teachers to provide feedback when using our asTTle website.
- 3. Is it true that the computer will mark the tests? If so, what about subjects or questions without 'yes and no' answers.
One option that is being considered is to allow teachers to choose the proportion of closed and open questions. The more closed questions the teacher selects the more marking that the computer is able to do. Responses to the open-ended questions will be presented in a way that makes them simpler to mark.
- 4. Will e-asTTle be available in te reo Māori as well as English?
Yes.
- 5. Some claim that asTTle is hard and time consuming to use. How will e-asTTle be better?
e-asTTle will be easier and less time consuming to use:
- As it's web-based, schools won't have to load a new program onto their computer systems
- Students will be able to complete most tests online so teachers will have less data entry
- Teachers may spend less time marking if they choose to have closed questions (eg, yes/no, multiple choice, matching questions) marked automatically.
- 6. I've heard that e-asTTle is more than an assessment tool. Is that true – what else can it do?
e-asTTle provides teachers and principals with information that can be used to inform learning programmes and to apply teaching practice that maximises individual student learning.