Standard 5.4
Ethics
"Candidates conduct research and practice using accepted professional and institutional guidelines and procedures." (AECT, 2012)
Description of Artifact
The artifact chosen to demonstrate my proficiency in Standard 5.4 is a paper describing the evaluation plan for the prototype of an application called Collaborain. This paper was written in Dr. Heo’s spring 2018 course; Design of the Learner Experience. The objective of the assignment was to use the process of UX design to create an application that could be used to change a student behavior. So, I worked with a partner to create the app Collaborain. The objective of the app was to help disengaged math students who had the “cant do” mindset review the material covered in class and ask their peers for help in a safe environment. Once the prototype had been built for Collaborain, we were required to test it with real subjects. So my partner and I created an evaluation plan that was used for this step.
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Reflection and Rationale
As we were creating the evaluation plan, my partner and I had to consider the ethical and professional guidelines set by the Institutional Review Board and the AECT’s instructional technologists’ ethical guidelines. We made sure we asked the participants to sign a consent form once they had read through our evaluation plan. Thus, I believe that the knowledge and skills developed through the creation and administration of this evaluation plan helped me become proficient in AECT’s Standard 5.4 which states that “candidates [ should be able to] conduct research and practice using accepted professional and institutional guidelines and procedures.”
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Artifact 12A - Evaluation Plan for Collaborain