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Fiancés: Gauging engagement four ways

Katherine Watson, Coastline Distance Learning, CA, Usa 1

Gauging… how it’s done

…in the hard & soft sciences

…with fuzzy thought & action

…through alternative perspectives from diverse disciplinesfrom diverse places

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Fiancés

Hard & soft sciences’ worldviews Hard

Acontextual, deductive, empirical, objective, quantitative, and values-free

SoftContextual, inductive, subjective,

qualitative, and values-influenced

Katherine Watson, Coastline Distance Learning, CA, Usa 3

Fiancés

FuzzinessFuzzy science

chez Zadeh and “classically”in common parlance

Fuzzy conceptschez journalists, nurses, & othersin common parlance

Katherine Watson, Coastline Distance Learning, CA, Usa 4

Gauging and affiancing

Four fuzzy terms

Commitment

Engagement

Motivation

Success

Katherine Watson, Coastline Distance Learning, CA, Usa 5

Fiancés: Background

Perspectives on four fuzzy terms Discipline-based or –biasedGeographically-based or –biased

Katherine Watson, Coastline Distance Learning, CA, Usa 6

Gauging…

Commitment

What? Responsibility, persistence, diligence, or…

How instilled or attained? By professors, coursework, or…

How to evaluate, assess, measure? By drop-out rates, or…

Katherine Watson, Coastline Distance Learning, CA, Usa 7

Gauging…

Engagement What? Involvement, interest, participation…

How instilled or attained? Externally, or…

How to evaluate, assess, measure? Questionnaires…

Katherine Watson, Coastline Distance Learning, CA, Usa 8

Gauging…

Motivation

What? Intrinsically… extrinsically

How is it to be instilled or attained?

How to evaluate, assess, measure?

Katherine Watson, Coastline Distance Learning, CA, Usa 9

Gauging…

Success

What is it?

How is it instilled or attained?

How is it evaluated, assessed, measured?

Katherine Watson, Coastline Distance Learning, CA, Usa 10

Gauging 4 fuzzy fiancés

….via paradigm shift from “instructional” to “learning”:

from the traditional “instructional”

- discipline expert sages onstage, “vertical” knowledge

to the non-traditional “learning”

- transdisciplinary guides alongside, “horizontal” thought

….from fuzzy thought to analyzed action

Katherine Watson, Coastline Distance Learning, CA, Usa 11

Gauging: Let’s do it

The Learning Paradigm as a fuzz-clipper applied to…

commitment

engagement

motivation

success

Katherine Watson, Coastline Distance Learning, CA, Usa 12

Fiancés: Is this what we want, or….

Katherine Watson, Coastline Distance Learning, CA, Usa 13

“Now, what I want is, Facts. Teach these boys and girls

nothing but Facts. . . .

You can only form the minds of reasoning animals upon Facts:

nothing else will ever be of service to them . . .

Stick to Facts, sir!”

THOMAS GRADGRIND, A SUCCESSFUL HARDWARE MERCHANT, LECTURING THE LOCAL SCHOOLMASTER,

in C. Dickens’s BLEAK HOUSE (1854)