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¶ … patterns of training results emerge from the study?
Has training and technology-improved student's classroom behavior?
Has training and technology improved teachers' pedagogical skills/
Which training programs have been the most successful?
People and research sites I would study
I would study the classrooms and the teachers since they were the ones who lacked previous technical skills. My focus would, in particular, be on the students since the programs were devised to improve their class performance and increase their attention.
The secondary problem was teacher's lack of teaching skills. I would wish to investigate whether students' classroom behavior has improved as a result of the new technology and training programs and whether teachers have improved their teaching skills and, if so, how much can be contributed to the introduction of the technology.
Steps to gain permission to enter and study people and site.
Principal has already authorized me to investigate. I would request a formal letter of permission. I would then approach each teacher separately showing the letter and requesting permission to observe in a way that is inconspicuous and non-disturbing to teacher. I would explain the purpose of the observation and query teacher regarding possible concerns.
According to Yin (1994), my case study has 4 objectives and it is recommended...
To explore whether causal links exist
2. To describe the real-life context in which the programs occur
3. To describe the training program itself
4. To explore the situations in which the program have no clear trace of outcome.
I will use multiple souses of evidence: survey instruments, focus groups, interviews, and documents.
Survey instruments
I will design a brief list of questions where both students and teachers will be separately asked regarding their experience with the training programs and how they think it affected their interest in learning. Questions will also elicit their opinion on programs that they found most and least helpful to their progress and characteristics of those specific programs. Most questions will be closed-ended (requiring students / teacher to select a certain item as response or to mark it on a continuum of 1 or 5. A Likert scale will be used in that case where 1 stands for 'greatly improved and 5 for ' not at all'. Responses will be totaled.
Focus groups.
This will be done in an indirect manner where I will act as though I were guest lecturer and, presenting a class on technology, would elicit student's impressions whether technology has improved their performance. I may elicit even more interesting results by introducing some element of debate in the discussion…
Sources
Blaxter, l., Hughes, C., & Tight, M. (1996). How to research. Phil: Open Univ. Press,
Breakwell, G., Hammond, S. & Fife-Schaw, C. (2000). Research methods in psychology. USA: Sage
Policy Information Report (n.d.) Does it compute: the relationship between educational technology and student achievement http://www.ets.org/Media/Research/pdf/PICTECHNOLOG.pdf
Yin, T. (1994) Case study research: Design and methods (2md ed.) CA: Sage Pub.
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