The National Defence – PowerVote partnership
During this day, young people are given tests developed by the Ministry of National Education which are meant, among other things, to identify young people with reading difficulties. In order to modernize the procedure and speed up the processing of the results, French National Defence joined forces with Générale Multimédia to set up a system of interactive voting keypads to carry out this testing. In particular, these interactive devices allow for reliable, rapid correction, as well as the economizing of paper for each test.
One of the tests given to the young participants allows for the identification of reading and writing difficulties. Each test-taker has his or her own PowerVote voting keypad to answer questions displayed on a video-projector screen. The results are instantaneously corrected, thereby facilitating the organization of this nationwide test. The JAPD test results provide quantitative data on 17- to 18-year-olds. Discovering the scale of this phenomenon allows France’s ANLCI (”National Agency for the Fight Against Illiteracy”) to carry out a more effective policy.
A reliable, instantaneous study of the target population
Analysis of the JAPD test results gives an idea of the geographical distribution of French 17- and 18-year-olds in difficulty (4.9%). National Service Department staff members meet individually with these young people in order to present to them all avenues liable to aid their insertion, via local initiatives, the EPIDE (”National Defence Establishment for Insertion”) or the Savoirs pour Reussir (”Skills for Success”) programme.
The use of these electronic voting keypads facilitates the detection of these reading and writing difficulties by rendering the identification process faster and more effective.
Thanks to interactive voting keypads, French National Defence has been successful in identifying young people in difficulty. Each year, tests carried out during the JAPD allow for an effective, rapid identification of French 17- and 18-year-olds with scholastic difficulties.
Tags : electronic voting, group response system, interactive voting keypads, National Defence
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