LEARN! Manual Example #13
This example shows how the Finnish Road Safety Council (Liikenneturva) pre-tested a digital learning environment for 9 to 12 year olds, in three stages.
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Pre-Testing
Age Group
9 to 12 year olds
Filla & Rilla is a digital learning environment for cycling education in Finnish schools and is targeted at pupils in Grades 3 to 6 (9 to 12 year olds). The aim of pre-testing Filla & Rilla was to ensure its performance and usability. The goal was for teachers and pupils to find it easy to use and for it to motivate pupils to learn about safe cycling. There were three different stages of testing.
First stage of testing
- Platform and exercise training in order to find technical malfunctions. During this testing phase, time was spent looking for bugs in the digital platform and the exercises. The testers went through exercises with different devices and browsers in order to find not only technical malfunctions and bugs, but also clerical errors, absence or lack of feedback on exercises, etc.
- Testing with experts. Filla & Rilla’s structure, content and exercises were tested and reviewed by an expert group involving teachers and experts on traffic safety, rules, and digital applications.
Filla & Rilla. Source: Finnish Road Safety Council
Second stage of testing
Testing with children and their parents. The aim of this testing phase was to find out whether Filla & Rilla’s exercises were understandable and motivating for children. The aim was also to test how long it would take for children to complete exercise modules.
Ten pupils from Grades 3 to 6 were recruited together with their parents for testing. The children’s task was to complete Filla & Rilla’s exercise modules and to answer how fun it was to do the exercises. Parents were tasked to monitor the child and fill in an online form after every exercise module (see “Online Form (Parents)”).
Third stage of testing
Testing with classes. Three schools and five of their classes in Grades 3 to 6 were recruited for the last testing phase in order to find out how easy to use Filla & Rilla is in the classroom. Classes were monitored while they were using Filla & Rilla, and pupils were asked to fill in an online form afterwards (see “Online Form (Pupils)”). The images below show the feedback provided by 21 pupils in Year 4 in one particular school.
“How fun was it to do the exercises?”
How fun would it be to do the exercises again?
Pre-testing “Filla & Rilla” was presented during the LEARN! Manual Webinar.
More Information
The online evaluation forms were adapted to a paper format for the purpose of showing them as examples.