Qualitative Article Review

A) Summarize both professional, peer-reviewed articles by addressing the follow for each study.

What hypothesis do you believe was being tested by this data? Explain why you believe that.

1a. The first article that I chose for this assignment was written by Pamela Rogerson-Revell and is titled Constructively Aligning Technologies with learning and Assessment in a Distance Education Master’s Programme. The authors hypothesis which is being tested throughout this article includes a report on the need for improvement upon student learning and assessment outcomes experienced in online course delivery for a master’s program at the University of Leicester in the United Kingdom. The author stresses a need for strategically implementing the use

The authors hypothesis involves the study of practicing teacher’s perceptions of their own participation in a distance learning course. The study further describes the correlations of the teacher’s perceptions and instructor’s expectations of the course, the authors intent was to better understand learner experience instead of cause and effect relationships (Broady-Ortmann, C. 2002, p. 110). The study’s findings and data analysis produced an Assertion Matrix consisting of both five course designer’s perceptions and five participant’s perceptions. The course designer’s perceptions represent documented course outcomes and the perceptions of the participants indicate how the course outcomes were perceived (Broady-Ortmann, C. 2002, p.

The author supports the view that online learning and assessment need to be pedagogy focused rather than technology led in addition to the suggestion that “e-tivity” design starting points should be linked with learning outcomes and show correlation to formative and summative assessment (Rogerson-Revel, P. 2015, p. 144). I believe that these topics are important and relative to distance learning researchers, but I am not positive that this studies methods can absolutely claim these assertions as there not a good representation of a population. As mentioned earlier however, this study’s findings can suggest the need for further research and