ProPro-A-T
Product-oriented and process-oriented adaptation of test-based learning
(Produktorientierte und prozessorientierte Adaptation testbasierten Lernens)
Project duration: February 01, 2017 until October 31, 2020
Project management:
Dr. Julian Roelle and Dr. Axel Grund
Members of the project working group:
Prof. Dr. Kirsten Berthold and Prof. Dr. Stefan Fries
Scientific assistance:
Svenja Heitmann, M. Sc.
Background / Summary:
The giving of test tasks is a didactic concept frequently used in higher education to support students in the follow-up of classical face-to-face teaching (e.g., a lecture). This test-based learning is already frequently implemented digitally in current practice; both the giving of test items and the giving of feedback on students' answers are often supported by functions of digital learning platforms. This common form of digital support optimizes both access to test items and the effort required to give feedback. However, the potential that the use of digital components offers for improving the didactic concept of test-based learning is far from being exhausted by these functions. Thus, the integration of further digital components can open up learning-promoting individualization possibilities in the approach of test-based learning. In particular, test-based learning can be designed adaptively by means of digital components, which should bring beneficial effects from both a cognitive and a motivational perspective. The project ProPro-A-T aims to develop a theoretically based and transferable model solution for the implementation of such an adaptation of test-based learning, to evaluate it by means of relevant methods of empirical teaching-learning research and to implement it in the practice of university teaching. In the evaluation, the learning success as well as various motivational assessments will be used as central quantifiable indicators for the effectiveness of this digital further development of test-based learning.
The project was funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) under the Research for Digital Higher Education funding line.