eModeration adoption requirements for secondary school education: a critical literature review

Abstract

eModeration is an essential aspect of quality assurance in electronic learning, but eModeration systems are not a regular feature of assessment in educational institutions. One reason could be the lack of evidence-based requirements to guide the implementation and evaluation of eModeration systems. To ensure adoption, it is important that eModeration system requirements comply with technology acceptance requirements. The purpose of this paper is to determine the adoption requirements for the development of an eModeration system. We employ a critical literature review as methodology to extract an initial set of eModeration requirements from the literature. The initial set of eModeration requirements are then used as a basis for eliciting requirements from technology acceptance models. The lack of eModeration systems especially in the secondary school environment necessitated a focus on pre- adoption requirements, which was a challenge since most technology acceptance models assume the use of a system. The Human, Organisation and Technology model is useful in supporting pre-adoption requirements and was thus selected as the basis for synthesising the refined set of requirements. The contribution is a set of requirements that should be useful in the design and evaluation of eModeration systems towards ensuring adoption and use.