Multiple methodologies for evaluating computer uses in education

• Feedback on your proposals?
• Sonda Gabriel, Director of the College of Education's Office of School-University Research Relations (OSURR): Human Subjects protection process

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Institutional Review Board

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Multiple methodologies

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The Range of Methodologies

• Naturalistic observation
• Participant observation
• Interview
• Survey/Questionaire
• Quasi-experimental
• Experimental

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Kinds of evaluation

• Summative evaluation
• Formative evaluation

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Choosing a methodology

• What are your goals?
• How much do you know about what is happening?

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Examples of effective observation

• The "space bar" example
• The "DoIt" example

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The "space bar" example

• Push the space bar to continue.

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The "DoIt" example

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The future of higher edcuation

• UI-OnLine: next Friday, Oct 31st, 4pm, Room 242

• Teleapprenticeships in higher education
• Tele-task forces in higher education
• (as opposed to classes in a schooled curriculum)

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For next week

• read Manning and Oakley "white paper": "UI-OnLine: The Realization of the 21st Century Land-Grant University"

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