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Development and validation of a measure of authentic online work
Researchers tout digital learning as a tool that can increase the authenticity of student learning and assessment tasks but lack a psychometrically valid instrument to test this hypothesis. Further, there are several complementary definitions of authentic work, versus a single agreed upon definition...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8169427/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34092984 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11423-021-10007-6 |
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author | Darling-Aduana, Jennifer |
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description | Researchers tout digital learning as a tool that can increase the authenticity of student learning and assessment tasks but lack a psychometrically valid instrument to test this hypothesis. Further, there are several complementary definitions of authentic work, versus a single agreed upon definition, presented in academic literature. I synthesized this literature to develop the Authentic Online Work Rubric that measures two primary components of authentic online work – opportunities for higher-order thinking and real-world relevance. Data were collected from online courses developed by one of the largest online course providers in the United States. I validated the scale using principal component analysis before generating a lesson-level standardized coefficient using item response theory for both the higher-order thinking and real-world relevance subscales. The use of this rubric facilitates the measurement of authentic work and is targeted for use in the evaluation of learning tasks and assessments in online instructional settings to support researcher, developer, and school-based continuous improvement processes. |
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spelling | pubmed-81694272021-06-02 Development and validation of a measure of authentic online work Darling-Aduana, Jennifer Educ Technol Res Dev Development Article Researchers tout digital learning as a tool that can increase the authenticity of student learning and assessment tasks but lack a psychometrically valid instrument to test this hypothesis. Further, there are several complementary definitions of authentic work, versus a single agreed upon definition, presented in academic literature. I synthesized this literature to develop the Authentic Online Work Rubric that measures two primary components of authentic online work – opportunities for higher-order thinking and real-world relevance. Data were collected from online courses developed by one of the largest online course providers in the United States. I validated the scale using principal component analysis before generating a lesson-level standardized coefficient using item response theory for both the higher-order thinking and real-world relevance subscales. The use of this rubric facilitates the measurement of authentic work and is targeted for use in the evaluation of learning tasks and assessments in online instructional settings to support researcher, developer, and school-based continuous improvement processes. Springer US 2021-06-01 2021 /pmc/articles/PMC8169427/ /pubmed/34092984 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11423-021-10007-6 Text en © Association for Educational Communications and Technology 2021 This article is made available via the PMC Open Access Subset for unrestricted research re-use and secondary analysis in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for the duration of the World Health Organization (WHO) declaration of COVID-19 as a global pandemic. |
spellingShingle | Development Article Darling-Aduana, Jennifer Development and validation of a measure of authentic online work |
title | Development and validation of a measure of authentic online work |
title_full | Development and validation of a measure of authentic online work |
title_fullStr | Development and validation of a measure of authentic online work |
title_full_unstemmed | Development and validation of a measure of authentic online work |
title_short | Development and validation of a measure of authentic online work |
title_sort | development and validation of a measure of authentic online work |
topic | Development Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8169427/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34092984 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11423-021-10007-6 |
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