Doctoral symposium
online ethnographyadult skills
e-assessment
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assessment technologies
• “a method of using information technology for any assessment-related activities” (Brink & Lautenbach, 2011, p. 503)
• “e-assessment, which includes the entire assessment process, from designing assignments to storing the results with the help of ICT” (Stödberg, 2011, p. 1)
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trace ethnography
What are traces?They can be: Log files, e-mails, cronjobs, scores, reports, documents, images, videos, updates
“combines the richness of participant-observation with the wealth of data in logs so as to reconstruct patterns and practices of users in distributed sociotechnical systems.” (Giger and Ribes, 2011)
Online ethnography is one way of dealing with the wide variety of technologically-mediated communication “which makes interactions of diverse kinds persistent, traceable and amenable to sociological gaze” (Hine, 2011)
‘methods are never innocent and that in some measure they enact whatever it is they describe into reality’ (Law and Urry, 2004: 403)
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trace ethnography
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local networks
The simple viewtesting body test
test taker results
A less simple view
test taker
test
database/UI
software routines
testers (human)
support
communication
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local networks
even less simple
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not so local networks
tester 1
LODB
admin test taker
tester 2
tester 3
tester3
DB2
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policy networks
“researchers can often access traces of social practices in large document repositories, opening a window to patterns of coordination and knowledge work that goes well beyond immediate
observations” (Østerlund 2014 et al.)
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conceptual narrowing
Socio-technical practices
in
Inferences about socio-technical practices
outtest
conceptual narrowing
human capitalsocio-technical practices
observations, tests, surveys
calculations
discourse, texts, policy
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calculable objects
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Dematerialization to rematerialization
“Raw materials have to be put in place – and then held in place.” Law & Singleton 2003
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References
Østerlund, Carsten, Sawyer, Steve, Ribes, David, Shankar, Kalpana, & Geiger, Stuart. (2014, 4-7 March). What to Do with all those Traces People Leave behind: Computing, Culture, and (Bits of) Context? Paper presented at the iConference 2014, Berlin.
Law, John, & Urry, John. (2004). Enacting the social. Economy and Society, 33(3), 390-410. doi: 10.1080/0308514042000225716
Geiger, Stuart, & Ribes, David. (2011). Trace ethnography: Following coordination through documentary practices. Paper presented at the 44th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS), Hawaii.
Hine, C. (2011). Towards ethnography of television on the internet: A mobile strategy for exploring mundane interpretive activities. Media, Culture & Society, 33(4), 567-582. doi: 10.1177/0163443711401940
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