This blog post is a continuation of PL 34/10: Evidence 2.0
Lars Egeland – director of the OUC Learning Centre - is gathering very important evidence about his shoes …
Here I am using two of my own projects - Count The Traffic (CTT) and GLOSSA – to illustrate evidence-based practice in teaching and librarianship. Both projects aim to promote change by gathering new empirical evidence on user behavior.
The projects are presented very concretely – through the many different documents and activities they generate and relate to.
The case of CTT
The blog post
- PS 2/09: Private lives and public libraries
- Summary of Florence paper
The protocol
The academic paper
- Private lives and public libraries.
- Paper for the 8th Northumbria conference in Florence in August 2009
The conference presentation
- Slide version
- Google Presentation for Florence
The teaching video
- A fifteen minute video lecture on CTT is available on Vimeo.
The home page
The home page in Norwegian
Smaller case studies
Academic libraries
Public libraries
Big case study
- Students in action
- By Ana Maria Arango, Clara Escobar, András Molnár
- OUC Learning Centre
The popular article
- A simple way to know a library in depth
- By Ana Maria Arango, Clara Escobar, András Molnár
The translation of the popular article
- Bibliotekets indre liv
- Published by Bok og bibliotek, no. 2, 2010.
- Translated by Tord Høivik
The popular lecture
- Project 18
- Workshop in Cracow May 2010
The translation of the popular lecture
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The case of SLA
The development project
- GLOSSA timeline
The blog
- Global Statistics for Advocacy (GLOSSA)
- Mostly in English
- Some posts in Spanish
- A few posts in Polish
The course materials
- GLOSSA Pilot Draft
- Completed June 2010
- Started August 2009
The first training event
- Pilot test in Crete
- May 2010
- May 2010
The translations of the course materials
- Spanish
- Chinese
- Russian
The Manifesto
The translations of the Manifesto
- Spanish
- Chinese
- ….
The global initiative
Evidence based teaching
The Gates Foundation
Conclusion
The microcosm mirrors the macrocosm.
- A project that aims to change the world
- has to engage with the world -
- in a multitude of ways -
- even in such a tiny field as library statistics
Don’t expect peace and quiet. As a watchful participant, I can report that conflict and collaboration, feelings and interests, politics and power, runs through this little corner of the world as well.
Resources
- PL 33/10: Norwegian schools – the evidence
- PL 19/10: Statistics as evidence
- PL 45/08: Evidence based librarianship 101
APPENDIX
Because we do not believe there is one single measure that can capture the range of skills which teachers need—the art and science of teaching—we are testing many different tools for their association with growth in student achievement.
Nearly three thousand teachers in seven school districts are participating in the MET project. The project is currently wrapping up the first year of data collection and preparing for the second and final year. So far, the project has collected over 13,000 hours of digital video of classroom instruction, student feedback, and assessments for nearly 100,000 students. We will be reporting the initial results of the project this fall. Ultimately, we hope to provide new tools for those states and school districts that are looking to reinvent their approach to teacher evaluation.
Working With Teachers to Develop Fair and Reliable Measures of Effective Teaching
