Tracking skills and interest development
How might we enable parents to help their children develop their skills and interests?
An edtech company, that provides STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Math) activities to young Filipino children, wanted to show to the parents the growing interests of their children.
The Approach
There are three parts in this feature: identifying the learning data we want to measure, collecting baseline interest data of children and developing the parent dashboard.
There are 4 learning data that we want to measure - 21st-century skills development, Activity Completion Distribution by Age Recommendation, Interests by K-12 Curriculum Topics, and Interests by STEAM. We decided that these are key data to help parents gain insights on the interests of their children and plan activities for them.
Here are some example insights that parents can gain from these data:
Example insights that can be deduced
- Is the child growing up to become a curious person?
- Is the child becoming more sociable with other children?
Example insights that can be deduced
- Is the child improving wherein he is accomplish next level activities?
Example insights that can be deduced
- Does the child enjoy learning about planets?
Example insights that can be deduced
- Is the child more interested in creative activities?
We designed an onboarding process where we collect the baseline interest data of children using “I like” statements that are aligned with the interest themes that we want to measure.
Prior to the development of the parent dashboard, graphics and design system have been set.
Parent dashboard - Version 1
I placed in all the information that parents should be concerned with such as completed missions of the child, learning progress, upcoming events, clubs the kid belongs to, order tracking, rewards they can claim, and newly added activities.
After reviewing with the team, we decided to put focus on presenting the learning data in a way that is not overwhelming and can be easily understood. Elements that are not related to the child's skills and interest development were moved from the dashboard.
Design before feedback
The design we want to test with users is a parent dashboard with personalized learning data of the child for desktop. We have yet to speak with parents on the impact of this feature or if this will address the challenge posed in this case study.
What's next?
We want to measure the success of this feature by conducting user interviews and surveys.
We want to continue exploring ways to present not just visualized data but also insights and recommendations that parents can use to help their children develop their skills and interests.
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