Studying Your Teaching

Design and Development Research

1992-2012Neal Shambaugh - West Virginia University

Why study teaching

• Philosophical: human activity

• Professional-field: research base

• Professional-local: publications

• Personal: improvement

• Moral: public role, student future

Ways to study teaching

IDT Field

Design and Development

Systematic study of design, development, and evaluation processes…

…with the aim of establishing an empirical basis

…for the creation of instructional and non-instructional products and tools, and new or enhanced models that govern their development.

Features of D&D

• Longitudinal = trustworthiness• Iterative = repeated cycles of testing

research questions or objectives• Systematic = method• Challenge = shifting data from teaching• Validity = eliminating selection bias,

correcting biased inferences, increasing observations

Doctoral Study • 1994-1998, 6 deliveries• Co-teaching

• Ongoing study and presentations

Systematic study of design, development, and evaluation processes with the aim of establishing an empirical basis for the creation of instructional and non-instructional products and tools and new or enhanced models that govern their development.

ID content: ID process

Model Development

Descriptive: explain

Predictive: what might happen

Explorative: vary and see

Planning: do this

Reflexive: taking into account the instructor who examines one’s learning, design, and teaching, and students who examine their engagement and performance

Model Stages

Design & Development Process

Analysis: Data Reduction

• Miles and Huberman

• Use of “frames” (tables)

Data Reduction

• Within case analysis (for each C1-C6)What were the design decisions?How was the model implemented?What were the results of the model?

• Across case analysisDesign - Implementation - Evaluation

Developmental History

Instructional Design1992-2012 ~ 20 years

Activity Structures•Group Peer Review 25% grade•Design Activities 75% grade•Personal ID Model

Now and Future•Blended - now 100% online •Online activities•Blackboard modules•Future: eText?

Graduate ProgramDevelopmental ResearchDissertations

Research Agenda

Research Agenda

Research Agenda

To “think about the relationship between the personal and the professional (p. 92), to look at the research and the implications, and perhaps discover through systematic collection and analysis some patterns of thought” that have escaped me during the past 18 years.

Research Agenda