Instrumentation+Plan



Instrumentation Plan

i. Faculty/student interaction (My individual interaction with the professor contributed to my success in this course) ii. Instructional methods (The course content was delivered in a way that contributed to my learning of the material) iii. Student effort and involvement (The effort I put into this course helped me feel more involved with the other students in the course)
 * 1) Current Research Question: Does mobile learning in undergraduate education affect academic achievement?
 * 2) Instruments to be used in this research:
 * 3) Pre and Post tests: these will be course specific exams/tests given by the course professor. We will use the numerical scores on the first exam of the course and the final exam in the course to ensure both reliability and validity of the instrument being used in this research.
 * 4) Student Instructional Report (SIR II): this evaluation tool will be used towards the end of the course to procure student feedback in both the control group (the students with access to the m-learning component of the course) and the non-control group. Three additional statements will be incorporated into the tool in order to address the following:

These questions will be assessed on a Likert scale as follows: · **Strongly Agree** · **Agree** · **Undecided** · **Disagree** · **Strongly Disagree**

Other assistive technologies-The control group will need to have access to a mobile device such as a smartphone,(ie. I phone, Droid) in order to participate in the mobile learning component of this study.
 * 1) Validity and Reliability-Since we will be using an informant instrument (professor’s exams) we assume the validity and reliability criteria are met.