Wednesday, December 4, 2013

Research prospectus draft

Here is a link to my prospectus:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/mib4uv21d1o1uqc/RESEARCH%20PROSPECTUS%20-%2012.3.2013.docx

Monday, December 2, 2013

New draft of prospectus

Here is the new draft of my prospectus: https://www.dropbox.com/s/t4x9i2yh9paz5rx/795%20prospectus%20draft.docx

I'm looking forward to talking about it on Wednesday. :-)

Wednesday, October 2, 2013

Wang Ling's dissertation on the "Impact of Vicarious Learning Experiences and Goal Setting on Preservice Teachers' Self-Efficacy for Technology Integration"

In the past week, I have been reading Wang Ling's dissertation on the "Impact of Vicarious Learning Experiences and Goal Setting on Preservice Teachers' Self-Efficacy for Technology Integration". I have searched for dissertation by using the key words "case-based learning" "self-efficacy" "technology integration". So far I have not found a dissertation with case-based learning. But this one is a great resource for me to consider the self-efficacy.

Case-based learning can be from direct experience (e.g., service learning in W200) and vicarious learning (e.g., hypothetical cases and the videos watched in W200). In this dissertation, she investigated how learning experiences and goal settings can influence pre-service teachers' self-efficacy. She has 280 pre-service teachers enrolled in an introductory technology integration course. These students, in 18 sections, are assigned to four conditions (three experimental and one control). Students' self-efficacy was measured by a survey which is administrated in week three and six. The course was taught by one instructor for lectures, and 12 different teaching assistants for the lab sessions.

The results of the study indicated that both significant treatment effects for vicarious experience and goal setting on students' self-efficacy on technology integration. The effect is even more powerful when both are presented.