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please read chapter 7,8 and 13, and follow instructions carefully. - please same writer of my last order. - please advanced English level. - please 12pt font, double spaced, 2 pages only. A13. An Evaluation Framework Instructions Find a journal or conference publication that describes an interesting evaluation study from a digital library such as the ACM Digital library.
Then use the DECIDE framework and your knowledge from Chapters 7 and 8 to analyze it.
Some questions that you should seek to answer include:
(a) What are the goals and the questions that provide the focus for the evaluation?
(b) Which evaluation approaches and methods are used?
(c) What data is collected and how is it analyzed?
(d) What practical and ethical issues have been considered?
(e) Comment on the reliability, validity, ecological validity, biases, and scope of the study.
(f) Is there evidence of one or more pilot studies?
(g) Is triangulation used? (h) What are the strengths and weaknesses of the study report?
Write a 50-100 word critique that would help the author(s) improve their paper. Your homework should be typed, in 12pt font, double line spaced, and no longer than two sides of letter paper.
Qualitative and quantitative
Simple quantitative analysis
Simple qualitative analysis
Tools to support data analysis
Theoretical frameworks: grounded theory, distributed cognition, activity theory Presenting the findings: rigorous notations, stories, summaries
Quantitative and qualitative
Quantitative data – expressed as numbers
Qualitative data – difficult to measure sensibly as numbers, e.g. count number of words to measure dissatisfaction
Quantitative analysis – numerical methods to ascertain size, magnitude, amount
Qualitative analysis – expresses the nature of elements and is represented as themes, patterns, stories.
