Hi all,
You may have received an email inviting you to participate in a survey to validate a performance assessment for middle school students. If you have already completed the survey, please accept our thanks. If you have not completed the survey, please take the time to consider helping us with the research We are inviting people with experience with NetLogo to help us validate a test to make sure that it distinguishes between an experienced and novice (12-14-year-old middle-school students) NetLogo user. Your responses and opinion on the test would be invaluable to our work. No identifying information will be collected. Your responses are completely anonymous. The survey will take around 20 minutes to complete. Please click on the link below to begin the survey: https://virginiatech.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_5p3hnodlIxkMpoN If you have any queries or comments about the questionnaire or the research study, please write to me at [email protected] Thank you very much for giving your time to help us with our research. Regards, Aakash On Thu, Jun 8, 2017 at 10:59 AM, Aakash Gautam <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear NetLogo user, > > > > I am asking you to help out the NetLogo community and our project with 30 > minutes or less of your time. We need expert opinions to help us validate > a performance assessment we are using with middle school children as part > of an exploration of a possible relationship between computational thinking > and chemistry learning. > > > > I work on an NSF-supported project at Virginia Tech and UT Austin that > uses NetLogo simulations first to simulate difficult-to-learn science > concepts and then to help students as they learn to make changes to the > code. When we say “difficult to learn”, we are drawing on the literature > about misconceptions of science. At the end of our instruction, students > take a short performance assessment that aims to measure student learning > of both science and computational thinking. Our concern is with > validating the computational thinking portion of the test. > > > > One component of validating the test is to make sure that it distinguishes > between experienced and novice NetLogo users. Therefore, we would like to > know how you would answer the questions on the test. (Note: Some of you > may not feel very experienced with NetLogo, but anyone in this google group > counts as an expert. We are comparing your answers to those of 12 – > 14-year-olds with no prior programming experience.) It is better for us if > you do some of the tests than none at all, although the data are most > valuable when people complete the questions. > > > > No identifying information will be collected. Your responses are > completely anonymous. Data from responses will be exported into an excel > file and analyzed in aggregate form. We may also look at individual > respondents’ open-ended responses, but the identity of each respondent will > not be known. In order to be sensitive to ethical concerns associated with > working with minors, we ask that participants be 18 years of age or older. > > > > If you agree to participate and for us to use your data for research > purposes only, please follow the link to the survey below. If you have any > questions or concerns about this project, feel free to write me at > [email protected]. > > Survey link: https://virginiatech.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_ > 5p3hnodlIxkMpoN > > > Thank you very much. We know that you may have many similar requests and > are grateful for considering this one! > > > > > > Regards, > > Aakash > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "netlogo-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
