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Studying Your Teaching. Design and Development Research 1992-2012 Neal Shambaugh - West Virginia University. Why study teaching. Philosophical: human activity Professional-field: research base Professional-local: publications Personal: improvement Moral: public role, student future.
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Studying Your Teaching Design and Development Research 1992-2012 Neal Shambaugh - West Virginia University
Why study teaching • Philosophical: human activity • Professional-field: research base • Professional-local: publications • Personal: improvement • Moral: public role, student future
Design and Development Systematic study of design, development, and evaluation processes… …with the aim of establishing an empirical basis …for the creation of instructional and non-instructional products and tools, and new or enhanced models that govern their development.
Features of D&D • Longitudinal = trustworthiness • Iterative = repeated cycles of testing research questions or objectives • Systematic = method • Challenge = shifting data from teaching • Validity = eliminating selection bias, correcting biased inferences, increasing observations
Doctoral Study • 1994-1998, 6 deliveries • Co-teaching • Ongoing study and presentations Systematic study of design, development, and evaluation processes with the aim of establishing an empirical basis for the creation of instructional and non-instructional products and tools and new or enhanced models that govern their development.
Reflexive: taking into account the instructor who examines one’s learning, design, and teaching, and students who examine their engagement and performance Model Development Model Stages Descriptive: explain Predictive: what might happen Explorative: vary and see Planning: do this
Analysis: Data Reduction • Miles and Huberman • Use of “frames” (tables)
Data Reduction • Within case analysis (for each C1-C6) What were the design decisions? How was the model implemented? What were the results of the model? • Across case analysis Design - Implementation - Evaluation
Instructional Design • 1992-2012 ~ 20 years • Activity Structures • Group Peer Review 25% grade • Design Activities 75% grade • Personal ID Model • Now and Future • Blended - now 100% online • Online activities • Blackboard modules • Future: eText? Developmental History Graduate Program Developmental Research Dissertations
Research Agenda To “think about the relationship between the personal and the professional (p. 92), to look at the research and the implications, and perhaps discover through systematic collection and analysis some patterns of thought” that have escaped me during the past 18 years.