ERIC Number: EJ994676
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2012
Pages: 6
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Media Literacy Education Program Evaluators: What's the Job Description, Again?
DaCosta, Kneia Octavia
Journal of Media Literacy Education, v4 n3 p266-271 2012
School program evaluation researchers face a set of overlapping questions concerning our roles in the field: For the sake of "the data" and in quest of "the truth," am I a shrewd researcher before all else? For the sake of community-building and establishing respectful, reciprocal relationships with my school partners, am I first a gracious school guest, prepared to sacrifice research integrity for the sake of goodwill? Or, for the sake of students, am I foremost an advocate for the intervention, pressing an agenda I firmly believe in? Could I be fully all three? As an ingenue, who recently turned toward a field (media literacy education, MLE) that had long held much appeal but that did not square with my "Associate Professor of Psychology" title or graduate training, I grapple with these questions.
Descriptors: Literacy Education, Media Literacy, Occupational Information, School Community Relationship, Graduate Study, Program Evaluation, Integrity, Evaluators, Intervention, Control Groups, Partnerships in Education, Grade 8, College Students, Higher Education, Middle School Students
National Association for Media Literacy Education. 10 Laurel Hill Drive, Cherry Hill, NJ 08003. Tel: 888-775-2652; e-mail: editor@jmle.org; Web site: http://www.jmle.org
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Opinion Papers
Education Level: Grade 8; Higher Education; Middle Schools
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Language: English
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