Fifth Day Reflection

This morning topic was about "Improving the LE". This was the continuation of conducting the Assessment. Improving LE is about identifying the gaps after conducting the assessment and designing interventions, approaches and strategies to address the gap. The steps to "Improving LE" are;

1) Analyze the survey for LE problems in either overall or certain deminsion.
2) Conduct interview/discussion
3) Design intervention and track the process
4) After about 3 to 6 months, re-visit the LE enviroment.

There will be times that the the intervention is beyond one capability or the intervention does not produce the desired result that one may need external agenices assistance.

I think that the greatest aspect will be the "Conduct interview/discussion". How and what to ask is the greatest challenge and almost how to extract the information from the interview/discussion. This is the soft-skill of the interviewer. The other aspect will be the forwardness of the interviewees.

We were then introduced to the SPSS software to analyise the consolidated data to calcuate the mean and standard deviation. Each group was tasked to use the SPSS software to calculate 2-3 dimension of their scale and item mean and standard deviation. Our group then consolidated all the result and generate whole survey result table.

Btw is the SPSS a free-ware program? Is there any other program similar to SPSS? I am not sure whether it is better for the organization to have an office to manage and maintain a pool of Assessment expert. They will then assist the other department to carry out the assessment survey.

The group was working together to generate the Module final day assignment report based on day 4 classroom individual assessment survey and day 5 project on SPSS software run on the assessment survey result.