Leveraging Mobile Devices for Qualitative Formative Assessment

This chapter explores an approach for using mobile devices—smartphones, tablets, and laptops—to document learning using qualitative formative assessment. This process emerged from case study research on how mobile devices, specifically iPad, and certain approaches, specifically screencasting, can be used to support ongoing assessment of learning. The cases and the literature included are derived from a dissertation on this topic. The chapter will describe and examine relevant literature, processes involved and possibilities created through this approach.