Impact of Online Journal Club on Educational Research Literacy: Towards New Model, Measurement, and Practice
To apply online journal club as a signature pedagogy and to evaluate its effectiveness
on improving educational research literacy of researchers and students on the global scale.
Project Objectives
The main objectives are to create a new research literacy model, to develop and validate a measurement instrument of research literacy in the digital age, and to measure the effectiveness of the online journal club as an eLearning intervention for improving research literacy using the developed instrument. As interdisciplinary research, this study has the potential to create and lead a new branch of research and practice crossing the domains of eLearning, researcher development, and pedagogy. It will open new grounds to promote open and reusable research literacy training on the internet for the global audience.
Research Questions and Main Activities
Literature Review (+ Researcher Interviews)
Research question 1:
What facets of competence does research literacy cover and how to measure them?
Researcher Interviews
Research question 2:
What are experienced researchers’ reading strategies of research literature?
Survey
Research question 3:
What is the minimum level of research literacy to engage in strategic research literature reading?
Online Experiment
Research question 4:
What impact does OJC have on the research literacy levels of its participants?
Online Journal Club for Education Science Research
Call for 200 Global OJC Hosts
The OJC will invite 200 global education researchers as the collaborating hosts of 100 online reading sessions. In each session, one of 100 papers voted by 200 researchers, will be analytically read and explained by two collaborating hosts. Online communication tools such as Twitter and Slack will be used to enhance the community interaction.
Join Upcoming OJC Events as Participants
A total of 500 postgraduate students are scheduled to respond to an online survey to test their research literacy levels. Half of them will join the online journal club activities and respond to associated surveys after the participation, while other half will act as control group.
Pincipal Investigator
Dr. Jingjing Lin
Assistant Professor
Center for IT-based Education
Toyohashi University of Technology
Email: lin@cite.tut.ac.jp
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