Edtech Research Guideline #12: Work with Researchers who can be Objective and Independent
If you’re a K-12 educator or edtech provider, how can you make sure an edtech product will work in a specific school or community? Here’s 1 of 16 key guidelines for conducting and reporting edtech impact research that might help.
Edtech Research Guideline 12: Work with researchers who can be objective and independent
This Guideline is about maintaining credibility. This starts in the planning stage with the choice of researcher and includes the kind of contract put in place for the work, which determines the editorial and reporting process. These issues are present whether the research is conducted internally or through an external contractor.
This guideline comes from the third section of the report, “Implementing the Design,” which focuses on actual implementation of the research design. The researcher may have devised an excellent design with clear research questions, sensitive measures, and clearly differentiated comparisons, but now he or she must make it happen.
A preview of other guidelines in this section include:
11. Pay attention to implementation, but not too much attention
For all audiences, the Guidelines not only provide approaches to practice, but also seek to advance the field by helping to identify an appropriate balance among the rigor, practicality, timeliness, and usefulness of evaluation studies of K-12 edtech products
This post is one in a series based on excerpts from the Edtech Guidelines published by Empirical Education and ETIN. For more information, you may access the full set of guidelines here: https://www.empiricaleducation.com/research-guidelines/
