Reflections For Day 3, A&ILE

Today was very much about Group Activities - Using Case Study to learn about Survey Instrument.

Main Learning Points -

• Instruments are validated, when using, keep meaning intact.
• Avoid reinventing the wheel, find the appropriate Instrument and modify.
• Modify only to suit the Audience, Language style and Context.(Why modify?)
• Manage Survey Fatigue to achieve Consistency, Reliability and ease of result collating.
• Prefer having all positive statements to ease result collating.(How to modify?)

The day went by . . .

Morning . . .

• Arousal, a simple exercise to survey the class about years of service. Then, started to introduce terms like mean, standard deviation, average, etc.
• Went into lecture on modifying of Learning Environment Inventory.
• Did a WIHIC-preferred to experience it and understand how its modified.
• Case Study about survey findings from three schools to learn about how School Learning Environment Questionnaire was used to elicit responses coupled with Naturalistic Approach for further gathering of Qualitative feedback.

(By now, exposed to WIHIC and SLEQ)

How to conduct survey?

Administering -

• Determine the Inventory use, target audience, sample size, set up base questions for research.
• Inform and seek consensus from stakeholders(School, Parents).
• Conduct survey.

Interviewing -

• Is instrumental survey sufficient? Conduct interviews to capture qualitative feedback missing from the survey.

Consolidating -

• Collate findings
• Prepare report
• Share with stakeholders and interested parties.

Afternoon . . .

• State change, introducing Mr James Peh, student of Dr Quek.
• Rubrics on assignment, 'My Blog'.
• Group sharing on Case Study
• Summarising the findings by Dr Quek.
• Did WIHIC-Actual, follow up to WIHIC-Preferred.
• Reflections.

My Additional Learning . . .

Adult learners love case study, especially well presented with positive & negative perspectives. It allows opening for differing interpretations and inferences.

Adult learners tend to be self-driven (actualise or peer pressure) to do well in assignment given (My Blog).

Mr James Peh's sharing of interesting Internet sites and tools.