What method(s) are you using to explore the context/issue?
I will be using 3 different research methods for 4 outcomes or results:
- An interview or conversation with a colleague
- An email questionnaire with one of my students on their overall experience of the experimental drawings and the NVC communication methods used
- Photographs and tracking of the work made by students (this will form part of the presentation but is subjective so may not be considered data)
- There will be 2 Likert Scale questionnaires to be completed by students, 1 will based on the experimental drawings and one will be based on the NVC communication methods.
Colleague interview and auto recorded responses
The interview will be with a former colleague teaching as a drawing tutor. This interview will be an informal one and will add research and information to help me to form my pedagogic principles for this project.
Likert scale responses on experimental drawings
Student will be asked the following questions:
I have found the experimental drawings to be a new way of working?
I understand the thinking behind why we are doing the experimental drawings?
I have found the experimental drawings to be generative in new ways of thinking about making my work?
I have found the techniques used in the experimental drawings to be useful in making my work?
This way of working has opened up new things for my work?
Likert Scale responses to the following NVC communication questions
Did you feel empathetically supported in your studies?
Do you feel that I made observations rather than judgements when discussing your work?
Do you feel more connected to your work by being asked how you felt about your own work?
Did you feel more motivated by being asked what you felt about your work rather than being told by me?
Has this way of communicating opened new things for your work?
Interview or questionnaire with my students
There will be an interview questionnaire where I will ask the following questions:
- How did you find the experimental drawing warm up sessions? How did they influence the observational drawing that you made afterwards?
- How do you feel being asked to learn by looking?
- How does it feel to be taught techniques such as underpainting?
- Which of these learning styles did you feel gave you the most impetus and confidence to make your work? Which did you enjoy learning the most? Did either style of learning empower your making?
- Looking at your drawings and your work, how do you feel your work has changed with this way of looking and making?
What method(s) are you using to evaluate the change/intervention?
Feedback from my students on their engagement with the work and how they are feeling about what they are making/producing. Are they enjoying this way of working, do they believe they are learning and stretching their working and thinking?
The methodology behind using the Likert scale is that it offers me the readings in a numerical data form that show how students are finding the methodology in the sessions.
The email interview questionnaire will give the student more room to other up their own subjective viewpoints and should offer me a more fully rounded level of feedback. I can use this to evaluate my own teaching and shift or change anything that is not working in its current form.
In addition to this, I am also using my own subjectivity to track the work of students as they are applying for portfolio with this work, so the outcomes as well as the journeying is important.