Assessment assessment - part 8 May 7, 2005
Posted by Andy Roberts in : ultraversity , trackbackMore questions answered
The comparison of the cider wiki with the Ultraversity wiki. I mentioned this in some feedback to you – it just seems to come from nowhere with no data to back it up. Your conclusions may be correct but there’s no data and what has an Ultraversity wiki have to do with your UK Cider one anyway?
Well “Introducing a WIKI to a Community of Practice” is only the title of the whole investigation, so it can’t be entirely irrelevent can it?
It just gets more and more embarrassing, with these questions sounding like they come from somebody who has hardly bothered to read the report at all. The questionnaire data is included in an appendix, as advised, and as pointed to in the report:
I reflected on the questions posed by peer review partner Eve Thirkle :
and on the data from the Ultrastudents prototype questionnaire (Appendix 3) and came up with the following conclusions.
Is that coming from nowhere? The origin of the idea to compare the fortunes of two wikis for two very different communities is explained quite clearly in the main report under the heading “5. Data Analysis and Reflection“. And there’s a big white box with Eve’s face smiling out from it, how can you miss it? Perhaps by reading backwards from the bottom up, or just dipping in at random, who knows. Maybe there was something interesting happening on the TV at the same time. The relevance of the ultraversity Wiki is that it was the subject of a prototype questionnaire for the planned ukcider one. All of these decisions can be examined in detail if desired, by following the links from the main section 3 “The Plan”. It’s all there, in the list of SMART tasks which track the emergent plan as it changes to adapt to the real circumstances. I was led to believe this was being monitored at the time via RSS as well.
If you wanted to use them as an evaluative comparison, perhaps you’d need another whole assignment to gather the same data for the alternative wiki, and explain why you chose the one you did as a comparison.
That would be a really useful suggestion - if I wanted to spend a whole month or so doing something completely pointless.
is an online professional who initiated DARnet 
No comments yet.