Today Peter Rich, Craig Shepherd and I attempted to give a joint presentation to the faculty and students of the Brigham Young University Instructional Psychology and Technology department. Peter’s on faculty there, so he was live, while Craig and I presented from a distance from here at UGA. We used Macromedia Breeze, and in two trial runs it seemed to work fine. But when we actually logged in for the event, it seems every technical problem possible occured, with horrible echo/audio quality, audio coming in and out, losing the powerpoint and internet camera, and so on. I’m sure some of it was user error, but we’re still not really sure what went wrong, especially when it went so well in our trial run.

Anyway, my apologies to the BYU people. I hope you were able to get something out of the presentation, because we’re not really sure from our end when you were able to hear us and when you were not! Below is the link to the PowerPoint we used today, so you can download that and read through it if you would like.

http://the-wests.net/Uploads/BYUSeminar_09212007.ppt.

If you want to continue the discussion that we really didn’t have time for today, please post a question in the comments section below!

Thanks for the opportunity to talk to you today.

If you didn’t hear the presentation today, we talked about some of the work we did together as part of the Learning and Performance Support Laboratory, where we have been assisting Drs. Hannafin & Recesso to develop a teacher assessment model that emphasizes a legal philosophy for using evidence, rather than the medical model currently used in education. In this presentation we explain our theoretical framework and argument for an evidential reasoning approach to using evidence, and then we discuss the common findings and implications from three research studies using this assessment model with teachers, mentors, and administrators.

Tags: BYU, seminar, evidence, education, teacher assessment, teacher evaluation, evidential reasoning, VAT, UGA

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