[Sugar-devel] [IAEP] interesting article on evaluation

[Sora Edwards-Thro]

Thanks; I'll go ahead and reach out to him. I know there are writing tools
available online that we can use once we have the text samples, but
obviously they're not customized for Haitian Creole. A lot of the text
analysis will probably be more qualitative initially as we read through
what the students wrote and try to draw useful conclusions from it.

Out of curiosity: what sort of information becomes relevant when analyzing
a Turtle Art project?

On Sat, Feb 28, 2015 at 5:15 PM, Walter Bender <walter.bender at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Sat, Feb 28, 2015 at 5:10 PM, Sora Edwards-Thro <sora at unleashkids.org>
> wrote:
> > Thanks for sharing, Walter. Evaluation is a key component of my own
> research
> > on kids using the XO-1 laptops to develop as readers and authors. Here is
> > the data we hope to collect:
> >
> > -reading habits
> >         We will monitor which books individual students are downloading
> from
> > the server. We will also see the comments and rating readers leave on the
> > books.
> > -writing habits
> >         We will analyze writing samples published to the server for
> > vocabulary and grammatical complexity. The article is correct to point
> out
> > that these are key predictors of future success. I think it would be a
> good
> > idea to ask the students some of the questions proposed in the article
> and
> > see their responses.
> > -spoken stories
> >         For students who are not yet confident as writers, we hope to
> also
> > collect audio samples of oral storytelling / responses to prompts in
> order
> > to gauge their verbal and narrative abilities.
> >  -EGRA test results
> >        the EGRA test measures reading level by assessing students'
> ability
> > to recognize letters, sound out words, and comprehend short passages.
> It's
> > been adapted for Haiti and it's used in Africa as well. I don't really
> like
> > it (why so much emphasis on sounding out words, and only one section
> devoted
> > to comprehension, when the goal of reading is comprehension?), but we're
> > using it because USAID likes it and we like getting money from them /
> people
> > who trust them.
> >
> > I remember talking to Martin Dluhos a little bit about his work, but I
> have
> > to admit I don't know much about the possibilities for looking at how
> > students are spending their time via the Journal. Where can I go to find
> out
> > more?
> >
> > On Sat, Feb 28, 2015 at 2:43 PM, Dr. Gerald Ardito <
> gerald.ardito at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> Walter,
> >>
> >> I agree with your position about this. I often think of it in these
> terms:
> >> we want to talk about depth of learning and not just proficiency in
> regards
> >> to skills and content. To do that, we need to offer al "alternative
> world"
> >> to the one that argues for more and more high stakes testing. The tools
> you
> >> propose seem really consistent with that.
> >> And thanks for sharing the article.
> >> Gerald
> >>
> >> On Sat, Feb 28, 2015 at 2:09 PM, Walter Bender <walter.bender at gmail.com
> >
> >> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Amidst all the discussion about the future of Sugar, it would be good
> >>> to keep in mind what more we can do in terms of analyitics and
> >>> evaluation. We have a pretty decent mechanism (wrtiten by Martin) for
> >>> data gathering about what kids do; the portfolio for assessing what
> >>> they have done; and a few rubrics for tying together some of these
> >>> data.  The ideas expressed in [1] suggest we could do more.
> >>>
> >>> regards.
> >>>
> >>> -walter
> >>>
> >>> [1]
> >>>
> http://www.bostonglobe.com/magazine/2015/02/26/things-every-kid-should-master/uM72LGr63zeaStOp9zGyrJ/story.html
> >>>
> >>> --
> >>> Walter Bender
> >>> Sugar Labs
> >>> http://www.sugarlabs.org
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> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> _______________________________________________
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> >
> >
>
> Martin Abente can tell you more about the data collection side of
> Sugar (all of that work is in the new release, I believe. It is a
> matter of turning on a server.) Regarding analyzing the writing
> samples, etc. we don't have any automated tools for that in place. (We
> do have some tools for analyzing Turtle Art projects). We also have
> some tools for audio storytelling (the Story activity).
>
> -walter
>
> --
> Walter Bender
> Sugar Labs
> http://www.sugarlabs.org
>
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