Why did you choose the analysis methods that you chose?
I chose to use a Google Form that had a mixture of multiple choice questions that I could assign a quantitative value to as well as one open ended questions where I could evaluate the answers as qualitative data. I really thought that the quantitative data would be a lot easier to analyze since it was numbers. I have been having some struggles with the sheer amount of numerical data that I have to sort through. I had 140 students complete both the pre and the posttest and that alone has been very challenging. I am having a harder time than I thought finding the correct graphs to be able to include in my research paper with so much data. I definitely want to compare their pre and post test scores in a graph. I also asked students to self rate their ability to analyze a website for its credibility. I found this incredibly interesting and I am hoping to compare their score on their post test with their self evaluation score. How did each method that you chose answer your research question? I was amazed at the answers I saw on the pre test for their short answer open ended question. I really thought I would get a lot more variety in their answers in "how do you know if a website is trustworthy?" but they all seemed to answer the same way. After a class discussion I found out that in 5th grade, many of the students received a single day lesson from their teacher on how to read the URL of a website to analyze its credibility. Almost ALL of my students mentioned this in their answer on the pretest. I was happy to see that some did add to their skillset in their answer on the posttest, but I was shocked at how many still stuck with just that one piece of information to "check to see if the URL has .gov in the address." I think that the questions I asked students will help to answer my research questions. I asked a question where I had students report which methods that they had used in the past to evaluate websites and which ones they will use in the future. I think this quantitative data will be really helpful in answering my research question.
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Jane Gallagher
11/27/2017 06:46:30 pm
l love that your assessment tools appear to be online. After the fact, I realized I could have done my student survey on Google. Which, in retrospect, would have made data analyzing a bit easier.
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