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  • 标题:Utilisation-Focused Evaluation of ICT in Education: The Case of DFAQ Consultation Space
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  • 作者:Dick Ng’ambi, Irwin Brown
  • 期刊名称:Educational Technology and Society
  • 印刷版ISSN:1176-3647
  • 电子版ISSN:1436-4522
  • 出版年度:2004
  • 卷号:7
  • 期号:03
  • 页码:38-49
  • 出版社:IFETS - Attn Kinshuck
  • 摘要:This paper describes an evaluation of a web-based consultation space (a dynamic frequently asked questions environment - DFAQ) in which learners consult one another using questions, and in which both the flow of interaction and its artefacts become a resource available to a community of learners. The DFAQ is a special form of a Computer-Mediated-Communication tool specifically developed to facilitate questionbased interaction. We argue that education is too complex a social structure to be evaluated using deterministic positivist quantitative approaches. Given the volatility of determining what constitutes value, costs, inputs and outputs and the complexity of dynamics of socialization, a non-deterministic qualitative approach, utilisation-focused evaluation approach is used. Our conclusion is that the DFAQ does contribute to students’ academic performance and frees the lecturer-learner consultation time.
  • 关键词:Utilisation-Focused-Evaluation, ICT in Education, Computer-Mediated-Communication, and Dynamic Frequently Asked Questions (DFAQ)
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