What is Delphi Survey?

1.What is Delphi Survey?

Delphi survey is a method of establishing a general consensus among a group of experts through 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.

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, which is a method for achieving general consensus 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 for a Delphi survey, this research project has considered the two groups of participants consisting of schoolteachers and educational researchers. Therefore, this study plans to conduct separate surveys for two groups of participants: the researcher group and the teacher group.

Delphi survey group 1: 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

Delphi survey group2: Field experts (Teachers)

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.

First Delphi surveys will be conducted with academic experts to explore the competency elements of educational digital storytelling focused on language skills for KS3 students. This will help to shape the Delphi survey of field experts to explore the feasibility of an intermedia prototype from the perspective of secondary teachers in the UK.

Participants' opinions will be received through Delphi surveys, and data will be generated through mixed methods and then analysed. The opinions of experts will help to generate categories. In addition, by providing the results of the first survey collected from the researchers as the background information of the second survey to secondary teachers, this will follow the research method of the iterative design process as a part of evolutionary development model.

The process of eliciting meaningful consensus by separately surveying two expert groups is reflective of the characteristic of a modified Delphi study. The modified Delphi method is a group consensus strategy that systematically uses literature review, opinion of stakeholders and the judgment of experts within a field to reach agreement. The modified Delphi survey is a systematic approach to achieving group consensus that incorporates a literature review, the perspectives of stakeholders, and the expertise of certain groups within an area to reach a common agreement. Therefore, the research project expects the Delphi survey to be a useful research method to obtain expert advice for the development of educational programmes.

3. 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).

This study is to define competency elements of the digital storytelling required for Key Stage 3 students as well as enhance a pilot prototype by sharing this prototype to collect feedback from two groups of education experts in the UK: academic experts and field experts. With reference to analysing the linguistic outcomes of digital storytelling, this study will focus on identifying competency elements of digital storytelling in line with language skills.

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