As I wrote in Collecting data about engagement - quick questionnaires, quickconversations publics can be engaged at a range of levels
from- engagement with a research project's (prototype) products
to - engagement with the research process that are generating and modifying a research project's (prototype) products.
Juxtalearn will collect lots of data of type A
before, during and immediately after the scheduled interventions. Our purpose
within the 'Evaluating ways of capturing engagement processes' project
should focus on collecting data about level B, and data about level A over a
longer time period than for Juxatalearn. In the following paragraphs I describe some initial versions of questions that could be asked of people to help us understand engagement with Juxtalearn research. These are initial drafts, and will be developed further, ready for the first sessions which will occur in a week or twos time.
The Publics we will need to focus on include the teachers and students of the classes within which the Juxtalearn tools and practices are tried. In addition, we need to consider the representatives of schol management who will influence how the Juxtalearn interventions occur, and any future devlopments within the school resulting from the interventions.
Purposes:
What are the aims and objectives of this engaged research?
The purposes identified in my post entitled Collecting data about engagement - quick questionnaires, quick conversations can be rewritten to yield 3 research questions. Here are those reserach questions, along with some suggestions of questions for teachers and students.
- How do the publics we have
identified understand the purposes of the Juxtalearn research?
Questions for students & teachers
Why do you think the researchers are running the Juxtalearn sessions at your school?
(Don’t be afraid to tell us you don’t know as that is a perfectly valid answer.)
The above question could be asked immediately after a Juxtalearn session. - How do members of these publics communicate with each other about
Juxtalearn's research goals?
Questions for students
Have you discussed the Juxtalearn sessions with your friends or class mates?
If so, what sort of things have you discussed?Questions for teachers
Have you discussed the Juxtalearn sessions with your colleagues?
If so, what sort of things have you discussed?
The above questions could be asked sometime after a Juxtalearn session, and more than once, e.g. a week after, then a week later. - How do members of these
publics communicate with the research team about Juxtalearn's research
goals?
This can be answered by the Research Team.
Processes: (1) How does the research involve relevant publics in meaningful ways? (2) When, and (3) how often, are publics be involved? (4) Where are these interventions likely to take place, and (5) through what mechanisms?
The meaning of the Juxtalearn interventions to the publics immediately before, during and after the Juxtalearn sessions will be assessed by the Juxtalearn project itself, as part of the project's evaluation workpackage. A description of the processes will also be recorded by the Juxtalearn researchers, e.g. in terms of both (i) the planned Juxtalearn interventions, and (ii) a record of how the interventions playedout in practice.
To complement this, we will prompt for reposnses over a longer time frame, e.g. at monthly intervals after the initial Juxtalearn workshop. The following are draaft questions intended to find out if the teachers and studnets have made use of the Juxalearn approach outside of the Juxtalearn sessions, and outside of the topic areas used to introduced to it in the Juxtalearn sessions.
Questions for students
Have you used video creation to help you learn since attending the Juxtalern session on insert-date-here?
If so, how, and what topics have you used it in connection with?
Questions for teachers
Have you used video creation to help you teach since attending the Juxtalern session on insert-date-here?
If so, how, and what topics have you used it in connection with?
Participation:
measures of how the publics and researchers participated?
The Juxtalearn project will collect data related to planned Juxtalearn events. We aim to complement this by enquiring about unscripted and unplanned interactions with researchers about the
research, initiated by members of the publics, and interactions about the research between members of the publics not involving Juxtalearn researchers. Data relate to both of these the themes will be collected in reponse to questions listed under purposes.
To conclude, the previous paragraphs outline some draft questions intended to generate data from students, teachers and school managers about their views of the engagement with Juxtalearn research. The maechanisms that these questions will be put to these publics is likely to be through twitter and online surveys, though which will be used iss likely to depend on the preferences of memebers of these publics themselves.
