Information Sheet
- BJ
- 2023년 9월 12일
- 9분 분량
최종 수정일: 2024년 1월 29일
(Overview)
I would like to invite you to participate in a Delphi survey (Researchers) or Online focus group study (Schoolteachers and EdTech professionals) as part of my doctoral study. Participation is voluntary. Before you decide to participate, it is important to understand why the research project is being conducted and what the investigation will entail. Please do not hesitate to send me an email if you are unclear about anything or need more information (byung.park@students.plymouth.ac.uk). I’ll be happy to answer any questions that you might have
Project title:
Exploring the feasibility of utilising an interactive storybook for enhancing language skills of Key Stage 3 students: Perspectives of English Literature teachers and researchers of digital storytelling
Section 1: Taking part
1.What is Delphi Survey and Online focus group study?
Delphi survey is a method of establishing a general consensus among a group of experts through two or three surveys. As part of the procedure of Delphi survey, the responses to each questionnaire will be sent back to the experts in a summarised form and they will be able to respond back to the emerging data prepared for the next step. Therefore, the Delphi survey is an iterative multi-round process designed to lead expert opinions towards group consensus.
Online study are a key qualitative research method that provide a platform for facilitated discussions between experts in particular fields with the aim of generating a wealth of insights and perspectives. Particularly in educational research, these insights can significantly inform and shape the development and refinement of teaching and learning tools and strategies.
2.What is the purpose of the study?
This research project aims to explore a potential of creating an interactive storybook for enhancing language skills of KS3 students. To achieve this goal, this study plans to adopt a Delphi survey and online focus group study, which is a method for achieving general consensus as well as for receiving meaningful insights and feedback from an expert group. This is to seek advice from two expert groups about enhancing language skills in that is one of the potential benefits of educational digital storytelling and about the potential of intermediate prototype.
In terms of selecting an expert group, this research project has considered the two groups of participants consisting of schoolteachers (online focus group study) and educational researchers (a Delphi survey). Therefore, this study plans to conduct separate surveys for two groups of participants: the researcher group and the teacher group.
Delphi survey: Academic experts (Researchers)
For educational researchers, this study has created a list of potential participants based on the following categories based on preliminary research:
-Keywords related to the study
-Personal network
-University department
Focus study: Field experts (Schoolteachers and EdTech professionals)
As criteria of a field expert group, schoolteachers can be defined as secondary teachers who have a leadership for English literature in the UK closely related to language skills.
Delphi surveys will be conducted with academic experts to explore the competency elements of educational digital storytelling focusing on language skills for KS3 students. An online study with field experts will explore the feasibility of a pilot prototype from the perspective of school teachers and EdTech professionals. By iteratively reflecting both the theoretical base collected by the research group and the feedback from teachers in the school context, this study will employ the research method of the iterative design process as an important part of the evolutionary development model.
2.1 A pilot prototype created by this study
From the perspective of educational use of digital storytelling, this research has created an initial prototype to pilot an interactive storybook for enhancing language skills of Key Stage 3 (KS3) students utilising a Content Management System (CMS) platform. CMS is a tool or platform that allows users to create, manage, and publish digital content without needing to write all the code (Muhammad et al., 2021). This kind of software application can provide a centralised repository for digital content and a user-friendly interface for managing this content (Lust et al., 2012).
Fig.1. A pilot prototype in iPhone
Fig.2. Cover page in iPad
The aim of this study is to define the competency elements of digital storytelling required for Key Stage 3 students and to develop a pilot prototype by sharing this prototype to collect feedback from two groups of educational experts in the UK: academic experts and field experts. In relation to the analysis of the linguistic outcomes of digital storytelling, this study will focus on identifying competency elements of digital storytelling in line with language skills and exploring the feasibility of digital storytelling in an educational context.
3.Why have I been invited to take place?
I am interested in the views of a range of educational professionals who work with children in schools. I am interested in the views of school teachers and researchers on the potential of multimedia storytelling skills in the curriculum. In particular, I'd like to hear your perspectives on how students can use multimedia tools to write and create meaningful narratives in the National Curriculum. Your contributions will help to develop an understanding and agreement on the teaching of multimedia literacy to students. This is key to ensuring that subsequent stages of the research are aligned with the need to use multimedia storytelling elements in the national curriculum. Please feel free to share this research project with other relevant school teachers and researchers who may wish to participate.
4.Do I have to take part?
No, your participation is voluntary; it is up to you to decide whether to take part. If you decide to participate, please keep this information sheet. After you decide to take part, you are still free to withdraw at any time. However, if you decide to withdraw from the research project in the middle of progress, the completed survey will be considered an implied consent to your participation; in other words, it is assumed that you knowingly agreed to take part in conducting the research task.
5.What I will be asked to do if I take part?
If you decide to participate in this research project, you will be invited to take part as a Delphi panel member (Researchers) or online focus group (Schoolteachers). Delphi surveys use multiple rounds of questionnaires consisting of two or three rounds of surveys to reach a group consensus whilst remaining all participants anonymous. However, for the online focus group study related to the Interactive Storybook, participants only need to participate once. The survey will be sent to your email address along with instructions and will take up to approximately one week to answer questionnaires in your own time. Each survey is expected to take up to approximately 30 minutes to complete. You do not need to complete the questionnaire at one time and can save your answers and complete them later.
For the Delphi survey, researchers are asked to indicate how important you think the elements of multimedia storytelling are for each topic area in the ranking task. Questionnaires 2 will enable you to review how the rest of the survey participants evaluated each item. There will be no face-to-face communication and you will not be able to identify the other participants.
It is preferable to complete two rounds but if you do not fill in a round of survey, you will be considered to have withdrawn from the survey. If you complete a survey, the consent to research survey is assumed. Anonymous data collected in previous survey rounds may continue to be used for analysis even if you decide to withdraw from the survey. This is because at the time of submission, your data is merged with other participants' data and will no longer be identified.
In addition, an online study is being conducted with school teachers to refine the pilot prototype. This study includes open-ended questions for school teachers to provide feedback on a pilot prototype of an interactive storybook designed for KS3 English Literature.
Your identifiable contact information will be retained after the end of this survey, if you consent to it. In addition, your information will be kept in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation.
6.What is the main research question for this study?
-To critically analyse language skills related to digital storytelling competency elements for Key Stage 3 students by surveying the views of academic experts in digital storytelling in the UK
-To further develop a prototype of an interactive digital storybook with the help of Key Stage 3 English Literature teachers
-To identify possibilities for deploying an interactive digital storybook within a school’s curriculum.
7.What are the possible benefits of taking part?
By participating in this research project, you can contribute to the design of a meaningful educational model that strengthens multimedia literacy education. By defining competency elements of educational digital storytelling and refining the pilot prototype for students as school teachers and educational researchers, this can lead to enhanced multimedia literacy teaching skills for school teachers in the national curriculum. In addition, educators can gain their own pedagogical insights into multimedia education by participating in the process of evaluating the initial prototype of a multimedia storybook related to this research project. Therefore, there are no anticipated risks of participation.
8.Are there any risks in taking part?
It is highly improbable that participating in this research project will cause you any harm or emotional distress. If you have any apprehension about any aspect of this research project, you should ask the chief investigator (BJ Park) who will do his best to answer your questions
Section 2: Your personal data
9.What is personal data?
Personal data represents any identifiable information as an individual. Some personal data relevant to this research project will be collected and used, and this section will provide you with information about it. Personal data collected includes considered name, email address, profession and occupational experience.
10. Data protection
The University of Plymouth is a sponsor for this research project based on the United Kingdom and will serve as the data controller for this research project. This means that we are responsible for managing and using your information properly. In addition, the University of Plymouth will retain identifiable information about you for 10 years after this research project is completed and your personal data will be kept and processed in accordance with current data protection regulations.
11.Will my taking part in this study be kept confidential?
University of Plymouth is the sponsor for this research project in the UK and will serve as the data controller. This means that the University of Plymouth is responsible for managing and using your information properly. Your details (name, email address, profession, and experience in occupation) will be confidential and will not be shared with anyone who is not part of the research team. We will anonymously address any identification you or others may have when we write up the results. Direct quotations for free-text responses may be used as part of a study report or subsequent Delphi iteration, but these citations cannot be tracked back to you.
All the data from the research will be stored on the security network drive of the University of Plymouth and all the identifiable data will be destroyed at the end of the research project. Ethical approval of this research project has been supported by the Faculty Research Ethics and Integrity Committee on FREIC. It is possible that some of the data collected will be checked by accredited people from the University of Plymouth to ensure that this research project is being carried out correctly. Whoever has access to records will be governed by the same confidentiality rules.
12.Where can you find out more about how your information is used?
You can find out more about how we use your information
>by asking chief investigator of the research team
Byung Jae Park 01752 585473
PhD student and Chief Investigator
>by sending an email to our Data Protection Officer dpo@plymouth.ac.uk
>by ringing us on 01752 585858
If you have any concerns about how this research is being conducted, please contact the FREIC administrator (AHBEthics@plymouth.ac.uk)
13. How will this study manage any ethical issues?
As part of the PhD research project, this study has to abide by the 'Research Ethics Policy' of the University of Plymouth and British Educational Research Association (BERA) and will comply with research ethics by being reviewed from the 'Faculty Research Ethics and Integrity Committees' (FREICs).
Fig.3. The procedures to maintain confidentiality and anonymity
13.1 Anonymity
Because the responses of the participants in Delphi survey will be offered anonymity, Delphi survey has been described as a research method for the anonymous collection of narrative group opinion (Sekayi and Kennedy, 2017). Individual panellists of expert group do not have to be concerned about repercussions for their opinions.
13.2 Confidentiality
To secure confidentiality and security of information, all data and information collected from participants will be kept on Plymouth University's secure network. Based on the University’s Research Data Policy, version 1:1 published in June 2020, this research project will comply with the university’s research data policy.
13.3 Right to withdraw
Participants can withdraw their participation in the process of Delphi survey or online focus group study at any time. However, any data they have provided up to the date of withdrawal will be retained if the data were already amalgamated. When withdrawing the research project, participants can inform the research team that they wish to withdraw by email. Participants do not need to provide the research team with a reason for withdrawing the research project. Ethical consideration of IP issue in this research will include a sentence about acknowledging consent from participants about IP.
Section 3: Further information
14.What will you do with the results of this study?
I will prepare a report of the results of this survey that will be shared to all participants at the end of the research project. I will only use anonymised data for this research project and research project participants will not be identified in this research. In addition, the results of this study will help to define elements of multimedia storytelling competency, understand the need for its utilisation in the national curriculum, and underpin the subsequent stages of research for creating various multimedia storytelling models. As a PhD research project, this project findings will be published in the open access research repository 'PEARL' for the University of Plymouth as well as having an opportunity to be published to academic journal articles and presented at academic and professional conferences.
15.What do I do now?
Thank you for reading this information sheet and considering participating in this study. Please let me know if you would like to participate by replying to the invitation email (byung.park@students.plymouth.ac.uk). If you want to participate, I would appreciate it if you could fill out the attached consent form. If you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to contact me.
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