Dossier 1 Review Summary
Advisory Committee: Dr. Thomas Brush and Dr. Kyungbin Kwon
Date and time: December 16, 2020 (10.30 AM EST)
Location: zoom meeting
Candidacy Statement
- To elaborate more on the relation of what will be done in the first author’s study with the relation of future research agenda
- To corporate other academic experiences during the program
- To attach a doc version of the candidacy statement
Breadth and Integration
- To integrate gradually how the minor program will contribute to the personal academic growth
Academic Progress
- To link the most updated plan of studies before dossier #2
Research competencies
- To include more about the discussion of the first-author study
Teaching Competencies
- To attach some teaching artifacts regarding previously taught courses (e.g., course curriculum)
- If it is possible, to look for opportunities for teaching assistant
Dossier 2 Review Summary
Advisory Committee: Dr. Thomas Brush and Dr. Kyungbin Kwon
Reviewers: Dr. Krista Glazewski and Dr. Gamze Ozogul
Date and time: January 27th, 2022 (11.00 AM EST)
Location: School of Education
Outcomes: Conditional Pass
Overall Feedback [Reviewers’ Responses]
- “You presented a very thoughtful defense and presented your dossier with confidence. Your design and development work in the field of IST demonstrates that you are capable of undertaking some design and development challenges to address various questions of relevance”.
- “For your candidate statement, we suggest that you be more specific about your interest areas. You should provide definitions along with research-based examples of your interest areas. Specifically, we suggest that you describe why game-based learning and gamification are important and how this drives your work in terms of design and research into your designs”.
- “We suggest that you continue to reflect on ideas and theories from IST that can relate to and support your ideas as you move forward, particularly related to “motivational information systems” and learner-centered learning environments. Be cautious not to commit your pathway to a particular theoretical viewpoint or perspective out of convenience, popularity, or simply because it aligns with your initial ideas.”
- “We noted that every student with a minor from the Media School could write this same paragraph, so essentially what’s missing here is specificity about the breadth of IST knowledge and integration of your minor area into IST”.
Conditions
- “White paper. Explain your results from your first authored study and provide 4 explanations why you did not receive significant results for the research you conducted (excluding the number of participants).”
- I have elaborated on four possible explanations why this quai-experiment did not yield the initial goals. These elaborated points have been discussed with my advisory committee. [document]
- “Your candidate statement reads like a biography. Re-write the candidate statement to include your academic goals, ideas you draw from as a scholar, rich examples from prior research, and integration of your ideas. Make sure you foreground your knowledge of IST.”
- I rewrote my candidate statements by incorporating recommendations from all the reviewers. The revised candidate statement has been discussed with my advisory committee. [document]