Assistants for Assessment

• Autores: Nick Rushby
• Localización: Innovations in education and teaching international, ISSN 1470-3297, Vol. 33, Nº 3, 1996, págs. 154-161
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • A workplace study was devised to evaluate the concept of Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs) as job aids for workplace assessment in the signal and telecommunications environment of British Rail's West Anglia Infrastructure Support Unit. This is one of the newly formed organizations responsible for maintaining the railway track and its signalling systems. The study concluded that PDAs are effective job aids for workplace assessment in this environment and that, given the need to be certain that staff are competent to undertake safety‐critical work, the cost‐benefit of the approach can be demonstrated. The cost‐benefit is even clearer when there is a portfolio of performance support applications provided through a PDA. Several important issues about the presentation of evidence for assessment were identified. Following the study, British Rail Infrastructure Services have decided to implement the system throughout the organization and similar systems are being developed for use in other industries. (Note that, throughout this paper, the term British Rail is used to refer collectively to those companies, some now privatized and some about to be privatized, that make up the major rail network in the UK.)