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Using Scenario-based Questionnaires to Investigate Teaching Knowledge and Practice at Scale

Cadre-Admin — Fri, 27 Apr 2018 20:40:13 +0000

Using Scenario-based Questionnaires to Investigate Teaching Knowledge and Practice at Scale

Presenters use illustrations from a project that used scenario-based, graphics-enhanced online questionnaires to introduce participants to the use of these techniques to study teaching knowledge and practice.

Cadre-Admin Fri, 04/27/2018 - 16:40

Date/Time

Thursday, June 7, 2018 - 14:15 - Thursday, June 7, 2018 - 15:45

Location

Harding

Presenters

Daniel Chazan

Patricio Herbst

The objective of this session is to enable researchers to use scenario-based questionnaires in the study and assessment of teaching knowledge and practice. Presenters show examples of items from 15 instruments developed to study teachers’ decisions in instructional situations, their recognition of specific norms of mathematics instruction, and their dispositions toward professional obligations of teaching. After participants peruse the items and instruments, they are walked through the steps taken by presenters to develop, pilot, revise, and implement this set of instruments. Session leaders describe processes used to validate the measures developed and illustrate their use with sample results of the analysis. At least 45 minutes is dedicated to consultations with participants about their possible uses of these techniques: Participants might use these procedures and tools if they are interested in displaying classroom practices to ask questions about them or if they are interested in engaging respondents in branching scenarios (a.k.a., choose your own adventure). Presenters provide assistance conceptualizing those scenarios and the associated questionnaires.

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Designing and Analyzing Studies to Detect Moderation and Mediation

Cadre-Admin — Fri, 27 Apr 2018 20:22:37 +0000

Designing and Analyzing Studies to Detect Moderation and Mediation

This session provides practical training in the concepts and application of moderation and mediation within the context of STEM education.

Cadre-Admin Fri, 04/27/2018 - 16:22

Date/Time

Thursday, June 7, 2018 - 14:15 - Thursday, June 7, 2018 - 15:45

Location

Wilson A

Presenters

Benjamin Kelcey

Jessaca Spybrook

This session provides applied training in the principles and practice of designing and analyzing studies to address questions of moderation and mediation. Presenters outline the motivation and critical value of complementing “what works”-type questions with explanatory investigations that address for whom a program works, under what conditions it works, and how it works for different groups. A practical outline of the concepts of moderation and mediation is presented through several STEM case studies. Through practical examples, presenters demonstrate the analysis and design of several studies using common statistical software. They then consider multilevel extensions to these concepts in STEM settings and probe participant-generated considerations and challenges. The session concludes with a discussion of practical STEM-based strategies to address common challenges in implementing design and analysis.

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Measuring Latent Constructs

Cadre-Admin — Fri, 27 Apr 2018 18:45:12 +0000

Measuring Latent Constructs

The session details the measurement of latent constructs and provides practical training on the use of confirmatory factor analysis and latent trait models.

Cadre-Admin Fri, 04/27/2018 - 14:45

Date/Time

Thursday, June 7, 2018 - 10:45 - Thursday, June 7, 2018 - 12:15

Location

Hoover

Presenters

Benjamin Kelcey

Finbarr Sloane

This session provides an accessible introduction to the principles and practice of measuring latent traits in STEM studies as well as their implementation in common statistical software. Presenters first outline the motivation for latent traits and the practical challenges to measuring them in STEM studies. They then introduce case studies focused on measuring several different types of latent constructs associated with STEM education in different contextual settings. Presenters consider applied illustrations in detail and demonstrate them through hands-on examples of confirmatory factor analyses in software. They then consider multilevel extensions to these concepts in STEM settings and investigate other participant-generated considerations and challenges. The session concludes with a discussion of practical measurement plans related to study design and the assessment of intervention effects.

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Exploring Variation in Discourse and Interactional Analyses

Cadre-Admin — Fri, 27 Apr 2018 18:41:15 +0000

Exploring Variation in Discourse and Interactional Analyses

Presenters engage the audience in various theories and methods for discourse and interactional analysis, exploring the ways in which these approaches shape researchers’ claims.

Cadre-Admin Fri, 04/27/2018 - 14:41

Date/Time

Thursday, June 7, 2018 - 10:45 - Thursday, June 7, 2018 - 12:15

Location

Wilson A

Presenters

Megan Bang

Leema Berland

Sylvia Celedon-Pattichis

Beth Herbel-Eisenmann

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Designing Multilevel Studies

Cadre-Admin — Thu, 26 Apr 2018 21:10:43 +0000

Designing Multilevel Studies

Using practical training and STEM study examples, presenters provide training on planning efficient and effective impact studies in multilevel settings.

Cadre-Admin Thu, 04/26/2018 - 17:10

Date/Time

Wednesday, June 6, 2018 - 12:00 - Wednesday, June 6, 2018 - 14:00

Location

Jackson

Presenters

Jessaca Spybrook

Finbarr Sloane

The purpose of this session is to train researchers in how to plan efficient and effective studies in multilevel settings (e.g., students nested within classrooms and schools) using several common designs. Topics include the basic concepts of multilevel design, the rationale for multilevel designs, identifying and selecting an appropriate design, practical study considerations and constraints, planning and estimating the necessary scale of studies with different designs, and strategies for reducing the sample sizes needed to conduct studies. Explication of each of these topics is anchored in the STEM-specific examples and combines lecture, software demonstrations, and practical exercises for participants in the free software PowerUP!

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