Goals:

• be aware of the various types of evidence that can be used as quantitative and qualitative evidence in a scholarly understanding of learning with technology
• be able to describe levels of quantitative data and units of analysis for qualitative analysis

Activity Guide:

For your own classroom implementation of technology from Fall semester, provide possible measures of at least 5 types of quantitative and  3 measures of qualitative evidence. Consider quantitative and observational possibilities of these and others:

• Student satisfaction, interest, willingness to consider advanced courses
• Parent satisfaction
• Student engagement with assignments and materials
• Teacher benefits (ease of grading, level of feedback)
• 21st century “soft” skills like collaboration skills and online use of resource skills
• teacher-made survey and test scores
• textbook and unit test scores
• high stakes test scores