Studying Your Teaching Design and Development Research Neal Shambaugh - West Virginia University

Why study teaching Philosophical: human activity Professional-field: research base Professional-local: publications Personal: improvement Moral: public role, student future

Ways to study teaching

IDT Field

Design and Development Systematic study of design, development, and evaluation processes… …with the aim of establishing an empirical basis …for the creation of instructional and non- instructional products and tools, and new or enhanced models that govern their development.

Features of D&D Longitudinal = trustworthiness Iterative = repeated cycles of testing research questions or objectives Systematic = method Challenge = shifting data from teaching Validity = eliminating selection bias, correcting biased inferences, increasing observations

Doctoral Study , 6 deliveries Co-teaching Ongoing study and presentations Systematic study of design, development, and evaluation processes with the aim of establishing an empirical basis for the creation of instructional and non- instructional products and tools and new or enhanced models that govern their development.

ID content: ID process

Model Development Descriptive: explain Predictive: what might happen Explorative: vary and see Planning: do this Reflexive: taking into account the instructor who examines one’s learning, design, and teaching, and students who examine their engagement and performance Model Stages 

Design & Development Process

Analysis: Data Reduction Miles and Huberman Use of “frames” (tables)

Data Reduction Within case analysis (for each C1-C6) What were the design decisions? How was the model implemented? What were the results of the model? Across case analysis Design - Implementation - Evaluation

Developmental History Instructional Design ~ 20 years Activity Structures Group Peer Review 25% grade Design Activities 75% grade Personal ID Model Now and Future Blended - now 100% online Online activities Blackboard modules Future: eText? Graduate Program Developmental Research Dissertations

Research Agenda

To “think about the relationship between the personal and the professional (p. 92), to look at the research and the implications, and perhaps discover through systematic collection and analysis some patterns of thought” that have escaped me during the past 18 years. Research Agenda