Claims

Teachers rated the TARGET-tool's core features as easy to learn and efficient, but found scheduling student scans complex and the abundance of motivating strategies overwhelming

Claim · All claims
Evidence · 1 study (2 entries) · design r2 · q2
Currency · newest study 2024 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person

Subclaims

Reading the evidence codes

q is the design tier, i the impact, n the sample, and the kind with its r the rigour judged within that kind: what each code means.

This claim: no standardized effect is recorded in observations/ for it yet, so no benchmark reading is possible.

q2 i? Teachers experienced the dashboard, self-scan, and student scans as relatively easy to learn and efficient, while the schedule/password feature was highly complex and the number of motivating strategies was perceived as overwhelming. → Weeldenburg 2024 q2 i? Teachers expressed a positive attitude toward the tool, valuing how it encouraged objective examination of student experiences and critical reflection on teaching practice. → Weeldenburg 2024 (2)

Evidence

Weeldenburg 2024

Weeldenburg, G., Slingerland, M., Borghouts, L. B., Kromkamp, L., van Dijk, B., van der Born, E., & Vos, S. (2024). Evaluation of the digital teacher professional development TARGET-tool for optimizing the motivational climate in secondary school physical education. Education Tech Research Dev. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11423-024-10379-5

q2 · i? · qualitative · r3

Qualitative Framework Method analysis of individual semi-structured interviews with 10 PE teachers after 4–6 weeks of tool use. Functionalities were experienced as

"Overall, the different functionalities of the tool (e.g., conduct a self-scan, select TARGET dimensions, and perform student scans) are experienced as being relatively easy to learn and understand"

Weeldenburg 2024 (2)

Weeldenburg, G., Slingerland, M., Borghouts, L. B., Kromkamp, L., van Dijk, B., van der Born, E., & Vos, S. (2024). Evaluation of the digital teacher professional development TARGET-tool for optimizing the motivational climate in secondary school physical education. Education Tech Research Dev. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11423-024-10379-5

q2 · i? · design · r2

Interview data on the satisfaction subtheme: teachers expressed a positive attitude, saying the tool

"I think it’s an interesting instrument. It stimulates you to take a critical look at teaching practice and routines"

Discussion

Page metadata
Field Value
type claim
id target-tool-usability-strengths-and-frictions
title Teachers rated the TARGET-tool's core features as easy to learn and efficient, but found scheduling student scans complex and the abundance of motivating strategies overwhelming
description Teachers rated the TARGET-tool's core features as easy to learn and efficient, but found scheduling student scans complex and the abundance of motivating strategies overwhelming
status review
evidence_strength moderate
newest_evidence 2024
generated by process:wiki-ingest on 2026-10-28
trust unverified — no one has confirmed this page's content
sources 2 — weeldenburg-2024, weeldenburg-2024-2

Frontmatter is the page's machine-readable record — see the Schema & Guide.