ADN Educational Fields

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ADN Educational Fields

• March 2004

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Educational Purpose

• Describe educational and pedagogical
  characteristics of resources where resources are
• Curriculum, activities, modules etc.
• Datasets
• Model output
• Visuals (maps, satellite imagery)

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More educational characteristics

• Provides useful educational information about
  learning/teaching use
• Does not provide detailed explanations on use or
  resource review (use annotation framework)
• All metadata is subjective, generally the
  viewpoint of the cataloger or occasionally the
  resource creator - particularly true with
  educational fields

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Educational Development

• DPC - Katy Ginger, Holly Devaul
• ADL/ADEPT - Tim Tierney
• Colorado School of Mines - Tom Boyd
• NASA - Shelley Olds
• Other sources - IMS, GEM and DC
• Development period - Jan 2000 to June 2002 with
  some implementation fixes in Dec 2002

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Educational fields (1 and 2)

• Interactivity level - the level of interaction
  with the resource
• Optional cant repeat
• Controlled vocabulary from IMS (e.g. high, low)
• Not yet searchable or displayed
• Interactivity type - the type of interaction
• Optional cant repeat
• Controlled vocabulary from IMS (e.g. active,
  expositive, mixed)
• Not yet searchable or displayed

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Educational fields (3)

• Resource type - describes how the resource can be
  used in the classroom, professional development
  or in an informal educational setting
• Required repeatable searchable displayed
• Controlled vocabulary
• E.g. TextReference, Learning materialClassroom
  activity

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Educational fields (4)

• Audience information - a group of fields that
  encompass grade range, typical age range, tool
  for, beneficiary, instructional goal, teaching
  method, typical use time
• Required and repeatable
• Controlled vocabularies - see individual fields

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Audience Information (Contd)

• Audience Example 1
• Grade range - Graduate or professional
• Tool for - Teachers
• Beneficiary - Teachers
• Teaching method - Distance learning
• Audience Example 2
• Grade range - High school
• Tool for - Teachers
• Beneficiary - Students Teaching method - Small
  group learning

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Educational fields (5)

• Grade Range - the appropriate grade levels for
  users of the resource
• Required and repeatable
• Controlled vocabularies - see individual fields
• E.g. K-2, 3-5, graduate, general public, informal
  education
• Searchable and displayed

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Educational fields (6)

• Typical Age Range - the appropriate age levels
  for users of the resource (often used when
  informal education is chosen for grade range)
• Optional
• Cant repeat
• Free text
• E.g. appropriate for 10-12 year olds girls
• Not yet searchable or displayed

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Educational fields (7)

• Tool for - who should use the resource for the
  learning/teaching setting
• Optional and repeatable
• Controlled vocabulary from GEM with DLESE
  modifications
• E.g. GEMstudent teachers, GEMmiddle school
  teachers, GEMcurriculum supervisors, DLESEMedia
  specialists
• Not yet searchable or displayed

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Educational fields (8)

• Beneficiary - who in the selected grade range
  benefits from use of the resource
• Optional and repeatable
• Controlled vocabulary from GEM with DLESE
  modifications
• E.g. GEMFemale students, GEMAt-risk students,
  DLESEEvaluators
• Not yet searchable or displayed

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Educational fields (9)

• Instructional goal - for the selected grade range
  what is the instructional goal of the resource
  (not applicable to all resources)
• Optional and repeatable
• Free text
• Not yet searchable or displayed

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Educational fields (10)

• Teaching Methods - for the selected grade range
  what methods of instruction are successful (not
  applicable to all resources)
• Optional, repeatable
• Controlled vocabulary from GEM with DLESE
  modifications
• E.g. DLESESmall group learning, GEMHands-on
  learning, GEMCooperative learning
• Not yet searchable or displayed

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Educational fields (11)

• Content Standards - an expectation of student
  knowledge, literacy and understanding that a
  resource addresses (not applicable to all
  resources)
• Optional
• Repeatable
• Controlled vocabulary from NSES, Geography, Math,
  Technology, AAAS
• Searchable and displayed

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Educational fields (12)

• Teaching Standards - an expectation of teacher
  knowledge, literacy and understanding in the
  methods of teaching science that a resource
  addresses (not applicable to all resources)
• Optional
• Repeatable
• Controlled vocabulary from NSES and Technology
• Not yet searchable or displayed

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Educational fields (13)

• Process Standards - an assessment of student
  ability and understanding that the resource
  addresses (not applicable to all resources)
• Optional
• Repeatable
• Controlled vocabulary from Math (NSES not done
  yet)
• Not yet searchable or displayed

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Educational fields (14)

• Typical Use Time - for the selected grade range,
  the length of time needed to complete or interact
  with the resource
• Optional and repeatable
• Encoded string like P1T2M3DT10H30M
• Not yet searchable or displayed

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Educational fields (15)

• Description - other pertinent educational
  information
• Optional
• Free text
• E.g. best done during an actual eclipse
• Not yet searchable or displayed

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Educational fields (16)

• Language - the language of the resource
• Required
• Controlled vocabulary built into XML
• E.g. en
• Not yet searchable or displayed

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Educational ComparisonIMS ADN

• Interactivity type - yes
• Interactivity level - yes
• Resource type - yes
• Semantic density - yes
• Grade range - yes, (context)
• Beneficiary - yes, (intended user)
• Tool for - no
• Difficulty - yes
• Typical use time - yes
• Language - yes
• Description - yes
• Teaching method - no
• Instructional goal - no
• Standards - yes (classification)

• Interactivity type - yes
• Interactivity level - yes
• Resource type - yes
• Semantic density - no
• Grade range - yes
• Beneficiary - yes
• Tool for - yes
• Difficulty - no
• Typical use time - yes
• Language - yes
• Description - yes
• Teaching method - yes
• Instructional goal - yes
• Standards - yes

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Educational ComparisonDC Qualified ADN

• Interactivity type - no
• Interactivity level - no
• Resource type - yes
• Semantic density - no
• Grade range - yes, (education level)
• Beneficiary - yes, (audience)
• Tool for - yes, (mediator)
• Difficulty - no
• Typical use time - no
• Language - yes
• Description - yes
• Teaching method - no
• Instructional goal - no
• Standards - yes (conforms to)

• Interactivity type - yes
• Interactivity level - yes
• Resource type - yes
• Semantic density - no
• Grade range - yes
• Beneficiary - yes
• Tool for - yes
• Difficulty - no
• Typical use time - yes
• Language - yes
• Description - yes
• Teaching method - yes
• Instructional goal - yes
• Standards - yes

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Educational ComparisonFGDC ADN

• Interactivity type - no
• Interactivity level - no
• Resource type - no
• Semantic density - no
• Grade range - no
• Beneficiary - no
• Tool for - no
• Difficulty - no
• Typical use time - no
• Language - no
• Description - no
• Teaching method - no
• Instructional goal - no
• Standards - no

• Interactivity type - yes
• Interactivity level - yes
• Resource type - yes
• Semantic density - no
• Grade range - yes
• Beneficiary - yes
• Tool for - yes
• Difficulty - no
• Typical use time - yes
• Language - yes
• Description - yes
• Teaching method - yes
• Instructional goal - yes
• Standards - yes

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Educational Summary

• ADN is comprehensive for education
• ADN is compatible with NSDL
• ADN plays well in the IMS and DC world
• As more collections have this info, it will be
  displayed and searchable
• ADN encompasses the big 3 of geospatial, temporal
  education for effective search