jerryzhch / cityofstgallen_starthack24

Case Introduction:

Your Mission: Proposing a digital tool to optimize the student assessment process for the educational staff

• Supporting Teachers
• Enhancing Transparency for Parents
• Monitoring Children's Development

Most schools in the city of St.Gallen use a unified assessment grid instead of grades to evaluate students throughout the year. In every test, teachers document the results by marking a certain number of learning objectives/competency levels (placing crosses). While this practice is well-established, what’s missing is a modern digital tool that allows for

• Entering evaluations,
• Logging observations about students during lessons,
• Accessing an overview of assessed competences over the year,
• Selecting from a catalog of possible competencies to assess (interface with the curriculum),
• Creating the ability to refine competency levels into specific learning objectives, individualized for each class, to enhance student evaluation.

What is the expected final product? A contemporary digital tool that:

• Facilitates the entry of evaluations and observations,
• Provides an overview of assessed competencies,
• Offers a selection from catalog of assessable competency levels tied to the curriculum,
• Eases the process of deriving report card grades for teachers, offering a better alternative to the e. g. paper-based evaluation system, without automatically converting evaluations into grades,
• Assists in demonstrating a student’s current progress during parent-teacher meetings.

Deep Dive Slides:

Slides Deep Dive

Further Information:

Standardized Evaluation Grid (example)

Resources:

Unstructured data:

• Analog evaluation of two different subjects
  • German
  • Maths
• Lehrplan21 on website

Structured data: (all only acessible after user registration)

• Lehrplan21: All subjects, their competences, etc
• Überfachliche Kompetenzen: Interdisciplinary competences
• Bildung Nachhaltige Entwicklung: Education in sustainable development (joinable with Lehrplan21 (by "querverweis"))
• Structured evaluation for German and Maths

Personal "data":

• Up to 4 teachers that are available to answer questions

Judging Criteria:

Creativity & Innovation (20%)

• Is something completely new or does it at least take a new approach to an old problem?
• How creative or innovating is the idea?
• How did the team deal with existing solutions that try to solve the same problem and how does that position their solution?

Usefulness (20%)

• How important and relevant is the use case of the prototype to address an identified problem?
• Is it something people would actually use?
• Is the solution practical for a heterogenous group of people?
• Does it meet a real need for a heterogenous group of people?

Technical complexity (20%)

• How technically impressive / elaborate is the solution?
• Have complex techniques, algorithms or combinations of different data and components been used?
• Is appropriate technology and methodology used?

Execution and Design (20%)

• How usable is the hack in its current state?
• How easy and intuitive is the solution to use?
• Does everything seem to work?
• How well designed is the hack?
• Has the team incorporated thoughts regarding usability and design?

Presentation (20%)

• How attractively is the project presented?
• Can the team explain in an understandable way what their solution actually does, what it is for and why it is important?
• Do the presentation and demo show how the hack meets the evaluation criteria?

Point of Contact:

Nicola Wullschleger, Mariia Kolisnyk, Rahel Rusterholz and Marco Käppeli will be glad to answer your questions during the Deep Dive, during the partner slots and other availabilities.

Prize - the winning team members will each receive:

Prize Name

You are winning a Paragliding flight over eastern Switzerland!