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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
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Fiancés
FuzzinessFuzzy science
chez Zadeh and “classically”in common parlance
Fuzzy conceptschez journalists, nurses, & othersin common parlance
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Gauging and affiancing
Four fuzzy terms
Commitment
Engagement
Motivation
Success
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Fiancés: Background
Perspectives on four fuzzy terms Discipline-based or –biasedGeographically-based or –biased
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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…
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Gauging…
Engagement What? Involvement, interest, participation…
How instilled or attained? Externally, or…
How to evaluate, assess, measure? Questionnaires…
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Gauging…
Motivation
What? Intrinsically… extrinsically
How is it to be instilled or attained?
How to evaluate, assess, measure?
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Gauging…
Success
What is it?
How is it instilled or attained?
How is it evaluated, assessed, measured?
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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
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Gauging: Let’s do it
The Learning Paradigm as a fuzz-clipper applied to…
commitment
engagement
motivation
success
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Fiancés: Is this what we want, or….
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“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)
