Evaluation of Pre & Post Questionnaires

1. Evaluation of Pre & Post Questionnaires Feb. 2014 GA Poznan Technion

2. Responses to the pre-project and post-project questionnaires

3. Motivation component Includes the following reasons for participating in the VISIONAIR project: • Promote my professional development • Be part of world-wide professional collaboration • Learn about innovative visualization technologies • Learn about the technical content • Learn about the academic and practical research • Interest in sharing knowledge • Interest in enhancing company product portfolio

4. Expectations: pre-project questionnaire • Includes the following reasons for participating in the VISIONAIR project: • Study and practice the technology or the system • Learn about the organization university and/or management of the laboratory • Initiate professional collaboration at the academic level • Initiate professional collaboration at the industrial level • Initiate professional collaboration at the technological level • Collaborate in writing proposals and future publications

5. Motivation & ExpectationPre-Post Paired t-test *N=24 pairs No significant difference - Host labs meet the motivation and expectations of the visitors

6. *N=24 pairs No significant difference - Host labs meet the motivation and expectations of the visitors

7. Preliminary Qualitative Analysis Examine the effect of the TNA visits on and contribution to the participants

8. Preliminary Qualitative Comparison • Pre: Why did you choose to apply? • Post:Did the training met your requirements and needs? Strongly agree • Explain: • (5) Because I'm interested in improving my international research background • (5) We have advanced in the knowledge of the different graphics engines used in CAVE facilities. We have found limits both in UNITY-middleVR and XVR (graphic engines). We have learned also different cluster organizations for CAVE rendering. We have increased our knowledge about eye-tracking devices.

9. Preliminary Qualitative Comparison • Pre: Why did you choose to apply? • Post:Did the training meet your requirements and needs? Strongly agree Explain: • (18) I found it a great opportunity to do interdisciplinary and international research • (18) Good field for interdisciplinary approach.

10. Preliminary Qualitative Comparison • Pre: Why did you choose to apply? • Post: Did the training met your requirements and needs? Strongly agree Explain: • (15) My research work on visualization expressions which students use in virtual science fair projects just started and I am very thankful for any kind of help and support of colleagues in that field. • (15) I was trained to use the OPM methodology. We had great and deep project discussions, I got very useful informations and critical suggestions - very helpful.

11. Contribution to Participants • Pre: What would you consider as the most relevant reason for your visit? • Post: What would you consider as the most relevant contribution of your visit to your professional career? Main category extracted from this question: Enhancing visitors’ learning, networking, collaborations, publication, and research

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16. Initial conclusions & limitations Initialconclusions: The preliminary qualitative analysis indicates that the host labs meet the expectations of the visitors. Limitation: Not all labs and visitors filled both pre- and post-questionnaires. Some did not even do one. Proposal: TNA cannot be considered complete until both questionnaires are done. This is VISIONNAIRs’ policy but unfortunately it is not enforced strictly enough.

17. Example of a TNA Visit Project 74: Using Visualization Analysis for Evaluating Students' Virtual Science Fairs Outcomes Proposer : Dr. Gabriela Jonas-Ahrend , faculty of physics education at the TechnischeUniversitaet Dortmund Visited laboratory: Enterpise Systems Modeling Laboratory (ESML), Technion, Haifa, Israel Visit Dates: 11 November to 15 November, 2012

18. Example of a TNA Visit – cont. Background - Science Fair • Science fair is an instance of the PBL method • Students are responsible for: • choosing the topic for their projects • working on their own experiment or science project • presenting it to their peers at school A new type of science fair is the virtual science fair, where e-mentors help and support students online with their science projects (Jonas-Ahrend, 2013).

19. Example of a TNA Visit – cont. Goals of the Project • To study how to analyse visual expressions which students use in virtual science fair projects • To learn how to model the e-mentoring and the virtual science fairs' processes using OPM – a conceptual modelling methodology • To explore additional ways to foster students' scientific literacy and motivation

20. Example of a TNA Visit – cont. Visit Outcomes • An OPM model that represents the science fair project's system was constructed • The visit ended with a decision to continue the joint research activities

21. Example of a TNA Visit – Cont. Example of the OPM Model

22. Example of a TNA Visit – Cont. Example of the OPM Model

23. Example of a TNA Visit – Cont. Feedback from the Visitor I learned a lot about research methods (qualitative and quantitative) and about the OPM methodology and how to apply those to my project "science fair"… The modelling process helped me to get new insights into the project management, about the different aspects in the project environment, and about the involved people and their different perspectives…most of all about valuable international collaboration in many ways.

24. Thank you! QUESTIONS ?