The Tablet PC has been employed to provide feedback through formative assessment to students in preparatory mathematics courses at Central Queensland University for close to a decade. A study conducted in 2011 on formative assessment and feedback given via the Tablet PC within these courses conveyed extremely positive outcomes (Adams, Dekkers, & Elliott, 2012). Approximately 90% of the 140 stud...

Objective: We present findings from the initial phase of our collaborative design process to build handheld, formative assessment tools for teachers. Specifically we report on 1) a survey of the variety of teacher-level data collection processes in the school, and 2) the early tool-prototyping process. Background: Prior work demonstrated the important role played by formative feedback systems. ...

The use of web-based learning and assessment tools is growing in tertiary institutions around the world. To date, very few papers have reported the development and evaluation of a web-based formative assessment tool for postgraduate students. The aim of the present paper was to report on the development and evaluation of an online formative assessment tool for this student group. The web-based ...

OBJECTIVE This study aimed to evaluate the perceptions of UK psychiatry trainees (residents) towards workplace-based assessments (WPBAs) as formative learning tools. WPBAs are a new form of UK mandatory assessment. METHODS Two focus group interviews were held with psychiatry trainees at different stages of training in Cambridge, UK. RESULTS Trainees identified a number of opportunities and ...