CARA (Child Abuse Risk Assessment): A Situated Evaluation of an Innovative Learning Environment
Choksi, Beena Ajit
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Description
Title
CARA (Child Abuse Risk Assessment): A Situated Evaluation of an Innovative Learning Environment
Author(s)
Choksi, Beena Ajit
Issue Date
2000
Doctoral Committee Chair(s)
DeStefano, Lizanne
Department of Study
Education
Discipline
Education
Degree Granting Institution
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Degree Name
Ph.D.
Degree Level
Dissertation
Keyword(s)
Education, Technology of
Language
eng
Abstract
Five child protection investigators participated in the study, and qualitative data was collected by means of a variety of probes. Reader-response theory, which seeks to understand the transaction between the reader, text, and context, guided the analysis of the data. Results showed that CARA was used in unique ways by each investigator to construct a flexible understanding of the domain of child abuse in varying forms, and therefore the user's transaction with the innovation is a crucial variable in evaluating innovations. The meaning of an innovation is determined not so much by the developer's idealization of it, but the process by which it comes to be used and realized.
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