Project: ICT as an independent learning tool
Implementation of an International
School Data collection project
Author: Fernando Rui Pinheiro Campos
Agrupamento de Escolas Cardoso Lopes
Portugal
Comenius Meeting
Belgium, February 2, 2009

Process to collect data
Answer
DBMS
Questionnaire Moodle Plataform
http: (Moodle)
Cardoso Lopes
Module Questtionaire
Filipe Neri
Santo António
Each partner as its
Araskoll
own enviroment DBMS
(SPSS)
http:
File
SPSS
Convertion
Extracting
import
First check
Data
codebook
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Excel import Phase – part #1
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Excel import Phase – part #2
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Excel import Phase – part #3
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After conversion to Excel
First Line includes variable names from
Moodle, build during the design of the
questionnaire template.
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Importing to SPSS
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After a successful import
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First Procedure
By default SPSS import adjust all the variables to
“Nominal”
Adjust the variable type in “measure” according to:
Continnuos variables like : Ages need to be convert to
scale .
Likert scale questions 1-5 : Studends leves questions need
to convert to ordinal.
example
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Internal Data validation
First step
Basic validation
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Validation Rules
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Validation Example with only a
few samples and analyzing data
SPSS statistics viewer
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Detect anomaly in Data
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Detect missing values
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Cronbach Alpha – Example with real data
extracted from Answer to the questionnaire
Acording to Garson(2008). “The widely-accepted social science cut-off is that alpha should be
.70 or higher for a set of items to be considered a scale, but some use .75 or .80 while
others are as lenient as .60.”
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Excel File with Three color, Class
Example (This as simulated data)
Time Date Scale Class
11h40 12-01-2009 0-100% 6K
Nº Age Gender Classification Level Final Classification
1 13 F 40 2 32
2 11 F 70 2 56
3 11 F 56 2 44,8
4 11 F 78 2 62,4
5 11 F 53 3 53
9 15 M 70 1 42
10 13 F 55 2 44
13 11 M 77 3 77
14 14 M 65 2 52
15 11 M F 0 Level 1 - 3
Notes: Level 1 - max. 60%,Level 2 - max 80%, Level 3 -
Identification reference 1201200911406A 100%
Level 1 Level 2 Level 3
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Things to Add or change to
questionnaire after pre-test
1- Add Subjects to the list, and the option Other
2- Add the reference age of the students
3- Add as option the location to found the digital resource used
4- Include explanation for the scale NS/NR or N/A (depends in the
language ) actual question 17.
6- Corrected the scale question 12 , level 4 – partially agree .
7- Other minor changes.
8- Added Identification Reference (to Link the students results).
9- Need for an additional user name for each teacher
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Updated Questionnaire
(after pre-test)
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Updated Questionnaire
(after pre-test cont.)
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What to do to the open
question?
Last question can be answered in mother
tongue language (if the teacher doesn't
understand) and in English (translated from
an expert (an English teacher for example).
Content analysis from the Questionnaire
Open question.
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Before continue
Ethical question
Need a document with authorizations from
teachers to be public their data.
Common document in English
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Things to be done
Organize the authorizations
Create the questionnaire after the pretest Phase
and distribute for all the partners.
Create one user for each teacher in each partner.
Create the codebook for the final version, for
students results and teacher questionnaire.
Create de digital resources for additional disciplines
that want to include the three color method or other
methods.
Choose a set of statistics tests according to the
project objectives and available data.
Many other implementation details …
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References
Garson,D.G.,2008. Available on Line at http://faculty.chass.ncsu.edu/garson/PA765/standard.htm .
Campos,F., Maio,V. (2008) . Unpublished document. Medidas em Educação uma Introdução.
http://moodle.org/, Modules and plugins available at May 15, 2008.
http://www.cardosolopes.net/elearning, available at May 23,2008.
SPSS version 17, http://www.spss.com/ .
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The End
Thanks for your patience
Fernando Rui P. Campos
frcamposri@gmail.com
Agrupamento de Escolas Cardoso Lopes
Amadora, Portugal
http://www.cardosolopes.net
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