Thanks; I'll go ahead and reach out to him. I know there are writing tools available online that we can use once we have the text samples, but obviously they're not customized for Haitian Creole. A lot of the text analysis will probably be more qualitative initially as we read through what the students wrote and try to draw useful conclusions from it.
Out of curiosity: what sort of information becomes relevant when analyzing a Turtle Art project? On Sat, Feb 28, 2015 at 5:15 PM, Walter Bender <walter.ben...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 >
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