Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] interesting article on evaluation
On Sat, Feb 28, 2015 at 5:10 PM, Sora Edwards-Thro s...@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.ard...@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.ben...@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 ___ Sugar-devel mailing list sugar-de...@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep 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 ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
[IAEP] [Poll] Choosing better UI for sugarlabs.org
Hi, I've created new Sugar Labs website project and published it at http://sugarlabs.org/~tymon . It is based on Jekyll, Bootstrap, CSS, some plugins and JS. Its current design has been invented by my friend Piotr Antosz (Boquete). Other Sugar community member has created other UI for website which is available at http://activities-2.sugarlabs.org/www-sugarlabs . It is based on my orginal solution with changes to text, used libraries and page layout. As we do not want on two separate projects, where authors' UI ideas are totally different, we would like to know which one should be continued and which abandoned. That's why we would like to ask you - Sugar community members - for opinion which UI you like more and which one you want to see in release page. As I try to be neutral I won't write here about advantages and disadvantages of both projects. Your opinion is really appericated! Regards, Tymon ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Planning for the future (Samuel Greenfeld)
On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 12:09 PM, Gonzalo Odiard godi...@sugarlabs.org wrote: Thanks Sora for sharing. We are working in a questionnaire to get more information from the local deployments. If you agree, we can send it to you to get more information from Haiti deployments. Somehow missed this message yesterday...yes, I'd be happy to get info from our Haiti deployments. On Sat, Feb 28, 2015 at 2:24 AM, James Cameron qu...@laptop.org wrote: On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 08:13:04PM -0700, Caryl Bigenho wrote: One other thing I should mention about some Sugar Activities... some of them really lack color. [...] This was possibly the design decision to support the colourless display of the XO laptop when used outdoors, as well as colour impaired children. I don't think it needs to be kept for Sugar, and would welcome a change where colour was more heavily used. (Developers: as a reproducible colouring of the background of the icons, for example, along with nicknames always shown on the neighbourhood view.) -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
[IAEP] interesting article on evaluation
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 ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] interesting article on evaluation
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.ben...@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 ___ Sugar-devel mailing list sugar-de...@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
