Exam 12: Analyzing Insights and Reflecting on Process

Possessing disciplinary adequacy is having

"Critically Analyze the Disciplinary Insights Into the Problem"

When attempting to identify the author's disciplinary affiliation, you should

In critically analyzing insights, we are interested in

There are 4 questions that should be answered as you complete STEP 6: Reflect on How an Interdisciplinary Approach Has Enlarged Your Understanding of the Problem. Name 3 of them.

Evidence is mounting that traditional ways of knowing, of generating knowledge, and of framing public discourse about the great issues of our time are no longer adequate. Interdisciplinarity is an idea whose time has come. This statement suggests that:

Saying that the factual information presented by disciplines may be "skewed" means that

From the following table -We may also deduce that:

From the following table -It is possible to deduce that a. The student is investigating terrorism, and is beginning STEP 5 of the Broad Model. b. The student is investigating terrorism, and is beginning STEP 1 of the Broad Model. c. The student is reflecting on the interdisciplinary process.

There are 9 key elements that you should be looking for as you read each insight in STEP 5. Name 5 of them:

There are three proven strategies for critically analyzing disciplinary insights and locating their sources of conflict. Name two of them:

Read the following: Complex Problem: "Should schools adopt computer-assisted education for young children?" Article Summaries Article 1: Psychology (Learning Theory). The National Research Council (NRC) is the research arm of the National Academy of Sciences, a private, nonprofit scholarly society that advises the federal government in scientific and technical matters. Its study "How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience, and School" argues that computer-assisted education can enhance learning (Bradsford, Brown, & Cocking, 1999). The supportive evidence used by the NRC includes references to state-of-the art learning software and several experimental projects such as GLOBE, which gathered data from students in over 2,000 schools in 34 countries (Bradsford et al., 1999). Article 2: Education. The Alliance for Childhood, a partnership of individuals and organizations, issued a report, "Fool's Gold: A Critical Look at Computers in Childhood", that subsequently appeared in a leading education journal. The report argues that computer assisted education does not benefit young children. This view, a matter of heated debate within the profession, was nevertheless included in the Education Department's own 1999 study of nine troubled schools in high poverty areas, as well as extensive references to studies by leading education experts, including Stanford Professor (Education) Larry Cuban, theorist John Dewey, Austrian innovator Rudolf Steiner, and MIT Professor Sherry Turkel (Alliance for Childhood, 1999). These insights demonstrate how: 1) disciplines or profession amass and present evidence that reflects its preferred research methodology and the kind of evidence that it considers reliable 2) experts omit evidence that they consider outside the scope of their discipline or profession. "Facts," then, are not always what they appear to be. They reflect only what the discipline and its community of experts are interested in. 3) it is easy to be seduced by the data when you happen to agree with the author's position on the issue. "4) you must be aware of an author's discipline, analyze carefully the kind of evidence the author privileges, and know how the author uses that evidence. Which of the statements above may be inferred from the article summaries above informed by your reading of CH12 ?"

Being critical of expert evidence means

Integration consists not of adding different or similar things together but of

If you can understand the perspective of each relevant discipline; read the insights; identify the theory on which the insight is based, and identify the appropriateness of the method the author uses, you are demonstrating:

To "critically analyze" requires being

Consider the following: "A key guiding principle of interdisciplinary analysis is that no piece of scholarly research is perfect. If we accept that no scholarly method can guide a researcher flawlessly towards insight, then it follows that scholarly results may reflect researcher biases. This does not mean that results reflect only such biases, as some in the field of science studies have claimed. But it does mean that one way of evaluating the insights generated by research is to interrogate researcher bias" (Szostak, 2009, p. 331). From this we can infer the following about scholarly research: 1) No scholarly research is perfect because it is skewed by predispositions and biases. 2) Research is a matter of mere opinion or flawed approach. 3) All researchers, including interdisciplinary researchers, should be transparent in their biases. 4) Researcher bias should be included in the criteria we use to evaluate our own work, as well as the work of others.

There are 6 steps of the Broad Model. Name them in order.