An Evaluation of Co-CreasKnow, A Knowledge Management System for the Co-Creation of Educational Material, Applied to High Abilities Secondary Students

Abstract

This article presents an evaluation model of Co-CreasKnow, a Knowledge Management System (KMS) designed to assist students to co-create educational material with teachers and family members using CocreHAs. Co-CreasKnow KMS keeps the knowledge generated in the process of co-creating educational material from being lost and allows it to be reused in subsequent co-creation processes. The proposed evaluation model uses a model for evaluating the technology acceptance of the Co-CreasKnow KMS and a model for assessing the KM maturity status in the co-creation process. A longitudinal evolutionary study was conducted in combination with Design-Based Research (DBR), examining the Co-CreasKnow KMS’s development across multiple iterations through the implementation of three co-creation experiments. These experiments used purposive sampling to work with small samples, which had been designed jointly by secondary students diagnosed with high abilities (HA) and their teachers and family members. The first models how users come to accept and use a technology. In the evaluation of the technology acceptance, the hypotheses associating ‘user satisfaction’ with both ‘perceived information quality’ and ‘perceived usefulness’ have been fulfilled. The Knowledge Management (KM) maturity status refers to the level of development and effectiveness it achieves. It is assessed using the General Knowledge Management Maturity Model (G-KMMM) for its ability to provide a comprehensive and structured evaluation of KM maturity status of different areas in the KM process. In relation to perceived KM maturity status, Level 2 (Awareness) was reached for people, Level 3 (Defined) for processes and Level 4 (Managed/Established) for technology.