Good day, my dears researchers.
The education research is a very important tool in order to improve our future professionals. In my university, some students do a professor practice as thesis and a close friend started studying three constructs using a five-point Likert-type agreement scale and structural equations in order to identify relations between constructs.
The results show the need for extra classroom material, interactive handbooks, and new tests. We would like to study the effect of this proposal with a classroom, however, the classroom population change every semester, so, we thought to build an early test focus on study habits and in the semester end performing a test using the original study (that consider study habits too) in order to evaluate a possible change.
What do you think about this design?
Do you have and example about how develop a longitudinal study in education with this kind of dynamic population?
Thanks four your help (and sorry for my English) in advance.
Best regards,
You can define a function to generate an identifier for each subject. Subsequently, you and link up the subjects using their identifier and conduct trace study for a subset of the population.
Dear Fu,
Thanks for your answer I have another question:
Does not matter that the material work proposal (classroom material, interactive handbooks, and new tests) is the result of a research conduct to students from the previous semester?
I am sorry that I don't understand your question. Can you elaborate it?
Do a cohort analysis. Look at group performances before an intervention and compare with group performances after or during intervention. Control for various intervening variables (categorical or interval types). Follow individuals (as mentioned in a previous answer). Hopefully you can have some intermediate time points with data (e.g., beginning, midway, end of intervention or semester). Draw spaghetti plots. Use appropriate methodologies (e.g., generalized linear models). Several papers I have placed on ResearchGate demonstrate a lot of this. Longitudinal studies are very powerful and easy for decision-makers to understand. Good luck.
Dears Fu and Warren,
Thanks a lot for your help, I will keep it in mind!
Also, I will do a sketch of the work developed in order to contextualize the problem.
Again, thank you a lot.
Best regards!
Dear Fu,
I add a file with the problem context (I hope that can be helpful).
Best regards
The are different types of longitudinal study, including, time-series research, panel study and cohort study. For panel study, we need to trace the change of individuals. As Warren mentioned, you can conduct cohort study with different groups of subjects.
Have a read at this. THE EFFECT OF THE FLIPPED CLASSROOM ON STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT AND STRESS
by
Cara A. Marlowe (July 2012)
Take a specific research topic and collaborate the study process across the geographies. The opportunities are abundant, limited only with the ability to think.
Example - I tried in my classroom to encourage students to submit their assignment -presentation through Youtube, the grooming was fantastic as it went with overall development of the student - as in content development and in delivery. Maybe this could also be a starting point for some others in their place. Later we can share and learn the experiment.
Hello Leonardo,
Great question. This depends on what your unit of analysis is. Here are some examples:
- The learners - then you'll need to follow the students
- The learning context - then you can focus on the settings and how this develops whilst a dynamic population shapes/forms it
- The teachers/staff - then you need to follow the staff, which may be partially dynamic
Have you ever come across:
- Cultural Historic Activity Theory
- Complex Adaptive Systems
You might find these ideas useful for your setting.
Kind regards, Tony.
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