Building a Picture of Usage Patterns in a Language Learning Space: Gathering Useful Quantitative and Qualitative Data
While evaluation of a language learning space can be a difficult undertaking, it is possible to design evaluation instruments that both satisfy institutional demands for numeric data and also provide useful information that can be used to improve the space. This paper reports on the implementation,...
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Kanda University of International Studies
2016-12-01
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| description | While evaluation of a language learning space can be a difficult undertaking, it is possible to design evaluation instruments that both satisfy institutional demands for numeric data and also provide useful information that can be used to improve the space. This paper reports on the implementation, one quantitative and one qualitative, of two evaluation instruments at a small and relatively new self-access centre in Osaka, Japan. The area counting system gives rich data about how students are using the space, while the user experience survey provides much valued learner voices on different aspects of the space and its mission. Examples are given from the findings and how this data can be utilised to enhance the space itself. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-befdeba2886948e4b1e0983893284b312022-12-22T03:07:02ZengKanda University of International StudiesStudies in Self-Access Learning Journal2185-37622185-37622016-12-0174412425Building a Picture of Usage Patterns in a Language Learning Space: Gathering Useful Quantitative and Qualitative DataKatherine ThorntonNao NoguchiWhile evaluation of a language learning space can be a difficult undertaking, it is possible to design evaluation instruments that both satisfy institutional demands for numeric data and also provide useful information that can be used to improve the space. This paper reports on the implementation, one quantitative and one qualitative, of two evaluation instruments at a small and relatively new self-access centre in Osaka, Japan. The area counting system gives rich data about how students are using the space, while the user experience survey provides much valued learner voices on different aspects of the space and its mission. Examples are given from the findings and how this data can be utilised to enhance the space itself.https://sisaljournal.org/archives/dec16/thornton_noguchi/self-access evaluationself-access management |
| spellingShingle | Katherine Thornton Nao Noguchi Building a Picture of Usage Patterns in a Language Learning Space: Gathering Useful Quantitative and Qualitative Data Studies in Self-Access Learning Journal self-access evaluation self-access management |
| title | Building a Picture of Usage Patterns in a Language Learning Space: Gathering Useful Quantitative and Qualitative Data |
| title_full | Building a Picture of Usage Patterns in a Language Learning Space: Gathering Useful Quantitative and Qualitative Data |
| title_fullStr | Building a Picture of Usage Patterns in a Language Learning Space: Gathering Useful Quantitative and Qualitative Data |
| title_full_unstemmed | Building a Picture of Usage Patterns in a Language Learning Space: Gathering Useful Quantitative and Qualitative Data |
| title_short | Building a Picture of Usage Patterns in a Language Learning Space: Gathering Useful Quantitative and Qualitative Data |
| title_sort | building a picture of usage patterns in a language learning space gathering useful quantitative and qualitative data |
| topic | self-access evaluation self-access management |
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