New technology presents us with excellent opportunities to deliver an enhanced e-marking experience for IB examiners that is fit for the future and has high-quality assessment at its heart.
Leading this collaborative effort are the developers at RM Assessor, in consultation with a panel of examiners and IB assessment staff. Together, we have determined what enhancements and additional features to the examination marking tool can be made for a limited trial in May 2017, and what future developments might look like.
The panel of examiners attended a workshop to test the user-interface by logging in>finding scripts to mark>marking them> submitting them>and presenting feedback on ease of use, navigation, entering marks, adding annotations, overall intuitiveness, and style.
Michelle David from our Business Integration team reported, “The workshop was a great success, it is invaluable to get first-hand feedback from the end user of the marking tool. We heard that the new interface was a ‘great improvement,’ with the look and feel being more ‘fluid and intuitive’ and the system more ‘simple, clear and user-friendly.’ There is still a great deal of work to be done. Developers from RM Assessor have taken all feedback from the day in to consideration for further development with the aim of re-grouping with the same examiners in late October for a further workshop to re-evaluate what had been developed, evaluate improvements and further development.”
We aim to invite another small group of examiners to participate in a further user trial in 2017, to again test the user-centric design of the system, and ensure that you all have the best experience of using this improved system. We will be looking for examiners to facilitate this. Please contact [email protected] to participate in this trial.