Healthy Habits & Mad Avatar Scientists: May 2012

Wednesday, May 16, 2012

Hi Maria & Manuela, We need your input on lots of things! First of all, we've been brainstorming some ideas about individual evaluation (doublefold purpose - for you as teachers to see what they've learnt and for us as researchers to be able to identify and measure specific outcomes to be combined with the other qualitative data). This is what we've come up with so far: Ideas for individual evaluation For specific vocabulary: Match pictures to word then classify (healthy or bad habit, problem) Reasoning & comprehension: Multiple choice of cause & effect (e.g. Helga has got a stomachache because she eats McDonald’s hamburgers everyday/ reads/ plays video games six hours a day.)Next, have them write down (in Catalan & German), what they know about: Austria/Spain: (general – country, partners, etc.) Habits (leave it general to see if they make any conceptual links, or classify or simply list them) Anything else? These could be accompanied by oral focus group interviews (in Spain - don't worry, Manuela, we don't expect you to do all of this by yourself in Austria!) SO, specific questions for you: 1) feedback on the above ideas 2) suggestions for specific questions for Albert & Stella's interview (NOT a part of the above evaluation) 3) PLEASE give us serious critique on the project design, materials, implementation, etc. All of this is important for us to be able to improve them for the next time and also to include in the research. THANKS MILLIONS!