Hi Cheri:

That makes sense and is helpful.  Thank you for your 2  cents (worth much more, of course!).

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Hi Deirdre

Well, you are offering options which follows Universal Design Principles but because you are using the information submitted for data gathering and research purposes then you are using 3 research instruments.

In my understanding it is the purpose and use of the things you gather that determine how they are viewed.  The options are not being used for learning but for data gathering.

My 2 cents

Cheri

Cheri MacLeod, PhD

Instructional Development Consultant

Learning and Teaching Centre

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Hello Colleagues:

I am grateful for all the past research, the presentations, the resources and the chats at OERI2021 so far.

I was speaking with our mentor Michelle Harrison and my other affinity group member Maya Hey about ways for students to express thoughts and feelings about their own processes during a research project involving them.  I want to complement the student focus groups I am organizing (not yet REB approved).

I would like students to document their own process. I would provide students a choice on how to document, for example, in a written diary, and audio diary, or concept map. Am I simply and justly applying Universal Design for Learning principles, encouraging multiple means of expression as I would in class?

Or, and this is the question, because each of those mediums and activities is different—writing, speaking, drawing—am I creating three research instruments?  Thoughts?

Michelle and Maya can add here to further represent our conversation.  

(I am the KPU Open Research Fellow, 2021-2022, overlapping with the extremely clever inaugural Research Fellow, Melissa Ashman who gave a lightning talk on Monday. )

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