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Hi all,
This week, Prof J class, more focus on the last topic for the course "testing and evaluation".
Actually today class refresh back last week topic.
Last week, we were given three articles and required to memasterkan ourselves to one of the articles and explain back to our friends... This is the details about all three articles.
Article 1 : TYPES OF COURSEWARE TESTING
1. Functionality Testing
Testing that focuses on the development function. particularly with respect to programming language. 3 type of functionality testing
- Unit Testing: Focus more on the programmer or the developer to check their own code. Check the code separately between each moduls.
- Integration Testing: More on testing the courseware when they want to merge the courseware... Whether the courseware can be merge or not, or any error occurs.
- Compatibility Testing: Testing the courseware on the various kinds of user hardware
and software configurations
2. Usability Testing
Usability
is a quality attribute that assesses how easy user interfaces are to
use. Usability is
defined by 5 quality components:
- Learnability
- Efficiency
- Memorability
- Errors
- Satisfaction
Article 2: COURSEWARE TESTING APPROACH
There are few ways we can used to test our courseware.. There are:
- Self testing -
- peer testing
- Concept Testing (Focus Groups)
- Field trials
Article 3 : COURSEWARE TESTING STAGES
- Alpha Testing - Alpha testing is
conducted when the prototype of the multimedia courseware is ready and the courseware
can take inputs and generate outputs
- Beta Testing - Beta testing comes after alpha testing and can be considered a form of
external user acceptance testing
The evaluation stage of the software development process requires the client and developer to review the software. Broadly speaking, they evaluate against the following questions: .jpg)
Formative Evaluation - Formative Evaluation is a bit more complex than summative evaluation. It is done with a small group of people to "test run" various aspects of instructional materials. For example, you might ask a friend to look over your web pages to see if they are graphically pleasing, if there are errors you've missed, if it has navigational problems. It's like having someone look over your shoulder during the development phase to help you catch things that you miss, but a fresh set of eye might not. At times, you might need to have this help from a target audience. For example, if you're designing learning materials for third graders, you should have a third grader as part of your Formative Evaluation.
Summative Evaluation - Summative evaluation provides information on the product's efficacy ( it's ability to do what it was designed to do). For example, did the learners learn what they were supposed to learn after using the instructional module. In a sense, it lets the learner know "how they did," but more importantly, by looking at how the learner's did, it helps you know whether the product teaches what it is supposed to teach..jpg)
Hi all,
Today is our 40% prototype presentation by all group..
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