Week 5: micropilot research question, artifact updates

I'd been searching for a 2015 paper by Amy Ko et al. that i think will be VERY relevant to designing your "micro-pilots".  i finally found it and added it to this week's module as a downloadable PDF.

Please read the paper as a team (suggestion: use my cheatsheet guide Links to an external site.on how to read & present a paper to do an "internal team presentation" of it) and use it to guide a team discussion of the following:

What are one or two (max) well-formed research questions that could be addressed by a micro-pilot in this course, and what would be a possible design of the micro-pilot informed by the material in this paper?

Essentially, a well-formed research question is one for which you can describe an experiment (quantitative, qualitative, or both) whose results would suggest the answer. (Imagine that you had to give someone else the instructions for setting up and running the experiment.) 

Class plan for March 2:

• (10 mins) One group did not get to present last time (we ran out of time) so we will start with them (Shirley, Mohammad, Michael W)
• (50 mins) Updates from each group (5x 10 minutes each):
  • (a) any interesting new progress or interesting challenges/roadblock as you continue to implement your prototype? (Feel free but not compelled to show a quick demo if that's useful)
  • (b) present your one or two research questions and describe in high level terms a possible micropilot design that addresses one or both. In practice you will probably address just one, but it's good to have >1 in case it turns out one of them isn't a good candidate for a micropilot of this scope.

Prof. Narges Norouzi  will likely attend and give feedback on the above, in addition to your regular staff.

See you Thursday!