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But first...

• your own personal web pages
• best personal web page examples
• taxonomy example web file names & category

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Multiple methodologies for evaluating computer uses in education
Highly interactive web pages: How to do "forms"

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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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Highly interactive web pages: How to do "forms"

• LRS "How to" pages

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For next week

• Major project proposal

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Major Project proposal

• question about computer uses in education
• target population

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Major Project

• Select some question or issue to address relating to computers and education
• Select some set of people relevant for the question or issue
• Conduct a major project study

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Project Question

• Can be in any content domain
• Can involve any target set of people (that you have access to)

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Target Audience

• Can be of any age level
• Can be of any type
• Need to have access

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Examples

• See the major projects from previous EdPsy 387 classes

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Project timeline

• Project Proposals due in two weeks (February 15)
• Feedback by Feb 22
• Progress report (March 21)
• Draft of final report (April 18)
• Final report, oral and written (May 9)