Writer please review the comment summary sent by my chair for Chapters 2 and 3
Chapter 2 edits please:
CONTENT: You present a LOT of information, however, I am not sure that ALL of the information is salient to your research and research questions. Specifically, the items that did not fit or flow include the following:
1. Bandura’s model: while very interesting, can we tie development to in person teaching?
2. Virtual learning and Integrated Clinical Experience (p. 43) – this section is really about ICE. Does it need to be included? Should it be MOVED to subsequent section on Physical Therapy Educational Practices?
3. Application of Theory to Physical Therapy Educational Practices (p. 49 – 53). How do you tie this information to your study? Do you note the impact of virtual education on the practices?
4. Students’ learning preferences (p. 54 – 56) – this section describes research in clinical education. But that’s not the focus of your study
5. Use of Standardized Patients: (pp. 56 – 58). I have to echo Wanda’s sentiments; I’m just not sure the information is needed in your study.
ORGANIZATION/SEQUENCE: as I read and re-read the Lit Review, I couldn’t sense a good ‘flow’ in topics. I mentally organized the material into the following categories/themes:
1. Teaching and Learning Theories (p. 22)
2. Effect of Covid on Teaching
3. Online Learning
a. Virtual learning and development – on p. 41 I questioned, “Development of what?”
b. Effectiveness of online teaching
c. Barriers to learning
4. Professionalism (general) – I’ve inserted a question on p. 36: Should Professional Behaviors and their development PRECEDE the effect(s) of Covid on Teaching and Online Learning? I’m undecided.
5. Professionalism in Physical Therapy
a. Development of Professional Behaviors v. ‘Methods Addressing Professional Behavior Change’ p. 53
I hope you will forgive me for re-organizing the material as listed above to facilitate reading.
ACTIONS: This is what I suggest you do next:
1. Review the content to see if you can tie each ‘chunk’ to your research focus and questions. Comb through the content to decide what is really NECESSARY v. interesting.
2. In the T & L Theory sections, can you ‘tie’ the topics to examples in PT education?
3. Many of your section headings include the term ‘Model’ – please review and make sure that MODELS are really described. Wanda pointed out that some headings may need to be re-worked.
Chapter 3 edits
Comments by my chair are on the document can you please make sure these are addressed?
Variables and statistics plan on running Chair made comments on paper and in previous document I sent regarding Chapter 3 (7/11) I have added these below.
Demographics (notes from committee call 10/5/22)
Relationship to answering research questions
Test of Relationships
Parametric-Non Parametric
Notes from 7/11/22) committee regarding chapter 3
a. VARIABLES:
i. NMIV: Non-manipulated Independent Variable, PRIMARY Method of Instruction: (F2F with Asynchronous OR completely distance with both Synchronous and Asynchronous distance)
1. Nominal, Binary: F2F or Distance
ii. DV: rating of professional behaviors
1. safety
2. professional behavior
3. accountability
4. professional behavior development
5. communication and
6. cultural competence
b. Measurement Scale of DVs – Ordinal: Will need Operational Definitions – in CPI appendix. CPI training for CI’s helps establish consistency in rating.
i. 1 – Beginner,
ii. 2 – Advanced Beginner,
iii. 3 – Intermediate,
iv. 4 – Advanced Intermediate,
v. 5 – Entry-level or
vi. Beyond Entry level
c. If relationship correlation between NMIV (method of instruction) and ratings on CPI criteria:
i. Cramer Coefficient C: measure the degree of association between 2 sets of attributes or variables. Use when we have only categorical/nominal information about 1 set of attributes (Method of Instruction).
d. If differences differences in ratings on CPI criteria between method of instruction:
i. Data assumptions:
1. Separate/Independent samples
2. Measurement of DV on Ordinal scale
ii. Potential Non-parametric statistical tests:
1. Wilcoxon-Mann-Whitney test: used to test whether 2 independent groups have been drawn from the same population. Analogous to the parametric t-test of differences