Deliverable 4.1, Research and Evluation Plan, has been completed and submitted to the European Commission on May 31st 2007. The plan consists of a series of empirical studies, to be carried out within constraints of school timetables and curricula, as well as of LEAD software (CoFFEE) release dates, that both ensure educational relevance and usefulness of the software, as embedded in specific educational scenarii, and provide feedback for their redesign. Evaluation is guided by conceptual models — with their underlying theories — of the processes of networked face to face collaboration that are empirically grounded in educational reality.
LEAD project partners have adopted closely related theoretical approaches that all consider (inter-)action and cognition to be essentially situated in social situations, and essentially tool mediated. These approaches are applied to the understanding of a common theoretically-constructed object of study: (teacher, artefact) scaffolded tool-mediated knowledge appropriation. Evaluation also requires defining approaches for gathering structured and relevant data of diverse kinds (computer interaction traces, videos, audio recordings with transcriptions, interview techniques), and defining analysis methods in order to produce results that effectively bridge the gap between theories, models and data.
The docment is available on the Public Deliverables Page.
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