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Country-wide measuring of digital competencies
Intuitive and GDPR-compliant assessment of data in a user-friendly dashboard for the Austrian ministry of education
Within the project “digi.check”, initiated by the Austrian Ministry of Education we are developing the “digi.check dashboard”, a WebApp that allows analyzing and assessing digital competencies as well as the tracking of the development of pupils across Austria.
On the one hand, our solution allows teachers to access data that are essential in finding ways to increase a pupil’s performance. On the other hand, it allocates analyses of digital competencies such as using social media, basic understanding of online security and using the Office suite.
However, the app doesn’t only provide benefits to teachers and pupils. It also helps the Austrian Ministry of Education to analyze differences in federate states, school systems or fundings by analyzing the data provided by the pupils. This way, the Ministry can compare results to determine which initiatives are effective where and use the information to improve the education level in areas, such as cities, whole regions or federate states, that risk lagging behind.
The Challenge
To getting an overview of the effectiveness of educational initiatives around digital competences happening around the country – that is what the Austrian Ministry of education challenged our project team with – and it succeeded!
The institution had the vision of fostering digital competencies among pupils and teachers alike in whole Austria. To track which educational initiatives are effective and in which parts of the country further development is needed, the Ministry was looking for a system capable of assessing the current status of digital competencies.
Special challenge in this project was the API to a foreign system. Connecting digi.check dashboard to the foreign system “ITSR3” was important not only to extract essential test data but also to verify user roles for the app in the form of a zero-knowledge proof of concept.
The Solution
An intuitive dashboard to assess digital competencies
Our idea was to provide a dashboard to assess the digital competencies, and to connect this board to ITSR3. The system provides the necessary results for the assessment, in order to create the flow as automatic as possible. Today, the Ministry can easily look for single schools or group them together to track their development, analyze entire regions and use the results to decide on which further initiatives to drive. The system can also restrict access data based on user roles and regions.
Our dashboard provides a user flow in which the user can create groups and connect these with test data in a foreign system. In addition, the system consolidates selected data and visualizes it in easily readable graphs to derive targeted actions from the given information. Pupils can enjoy public access to anonymized data, so that they can compare their own results within their related level.
Technologies used
The Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Research (BMBWF) creates the best possible environment for schools, universities and research institutions, and represents the interests of Austria as a location for science, research and business on the international stage. The Ministry’s tasks are performed by the individual Directorates-General focusing on the areas of education, science and higher education institutions and Research. In the area of education, the BMBWF is responsible for the entire education system, from early childhood education and primary schools to the Matura (higher education entrance examination), university colleges of teacher education and adult education.
In close association with academic and vocational schools, key areas of responsibility for the BMBWF include educational research; school quality development; school legislation issues; personnel matters at academic secondary schools, schools and colleges for intermediate and higher vocational education, and relating to administrative staff; employment and salary law; and school maintenance.
