ACTING EVALUATION AS AN ASSESSMENT METHOD USING PARTICIPANT'S IMAGINATION

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The present study examined a new evaluation method called as acting evaluation. It was a way of forming an ideal attitude of participants toward the task, which required them to imagine and to pretend the practical object person in the real evaluation. In the present study, they were the schoolteachers who would be users of an instruction manual. Twenty-six undergraduate students were divided into 2 groups: the experimental group which adopted acting evaluation and the control group. Both groups read prototypes of the manual, planned a class and answered questionnaires. As a result, 2 groups seemed to do the task similarly. However, the differences between 2 groups were seen in the required time for the task and its understanding. Acting evaluation could be a simple instruction method to make the participants concentrate on their task and be suitable for preliminary research. Difference between acting evaluation and other methods in design and in psychology using imagination was also briefly discussed.