Flashcards
ACTION RESEARCH
Cards in this deck (21)
- 1Action ResearchResearch conducted by teachers and other school personnel to address issues and problems in their own schools or classrooms. Includes three stages: planning, acting and reflecting.
- 2EDUTAINMENTCombination of education and entertainment. Educational applications which are packaged as games.
- 3Blackboard VistaIntegrated set of educational tools for developing and delivering courses or course components over the WWW and is now used at universities and colleges all over the world.
- 4—Computerized program where you can conduct a survey, allow novices to construct professional-looking surveys and distribute notice of them by email at a minimal cost.
- 5GrimmCollected and published local German fairy tales, work is example of Romantic German nationalism
- 6The SIMSWill Wright (Sim guy), huge pc game franchise, not much of a goal, female/casual appeal
- 7Second LifeOnline virtual world where participants can roam landscapes and interact, simulating real-world activities, including (often real) business transactions.
- 8ResearchA systematic inquiry into a subject or problem in order to discover, verify or revise relevant facts or principles having to do with that subject or problem.
- 9EvaluatingComparing observations and data to reach a conclusion about them
- 10—Involes using systems to compare the desired outcomes from planning to the actual results of execution; monitoring how plans are being executed and holding managers accountable for their decisions
- 11—Making a forecast of what will happen in the future based on past experience or evidence.
- 12ModelsA simplified representation of a system and are useful for studying systems that are too big, too small, or too dangerous to study directly.
- 13Case study approachesEthnographic in nature, are dealt with separately below.
- 14Statistical approachesDivided into survey approaches and experimental approaches.
- 15—The classroom researcher tries to imagine a teaching/learning problem and think of ways in which intervention might solve it.
- 16ActingPutting some kind of change into place. The researcher should look for measurements of change and the success of those changes.
- 17ReflectingAssessing not just how an intervention has solved the problem set out in the planning stage but also how the researcher´s own biases and priorities may have influenced the interpretation of the results.
- 18Action LearningModel Features: conceptualization, implementation and interpretation.
- 19ConceptualizationDelineate teaching/learning process, identify inputs and identify outcomes.
- 20ImplementationImplementation Measure outcomes, identify comparison, analyse comparison.
- 21InterpretationJudge effectiveness, judge cost benefit, determine action.
