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Exploring Interface Sign Ontologies for Web User Interface Design and Evaluation: A User Study
Part 2: Organizational Semiotics and ApplicationsInternational audienceThe aim of this paper is twofold: firstly, to find the set of ontologies (i.e., the set of concepts and skills) presupposed by users when interpreting the meaning of web interface signs (i.e., the smallest elements of web user interfaces), and secondly, to investigate usersâ difficulties in interpreting the meanings of interface signs belonging to different kinds of ontologies. In order to achieve these aims an empirical user study was conducted with 26 test participants. The study data was gathered by semi-structured interviews and questionnaires. Following an empirical research approach, descriptive statistics and qualitative data analysis were used to analyze the data. The study results provide a total of twelve ontologies and reveal the usersâ difficulties in interpreting the meanings of interface signs belonging to different kinds of ontologies
âScaling upâ educational change: some musings on misrecognition and doxic challenges
Educational policy-makers around the world are strongly committed to the notion of âscaling upâ. This can mean anything from encouraging more teachers to take up a pedagogical innovation, all the way through to system-wide efforts to implement âwhat worksâ across all schools. In this paper, I use Bourdieuâs notions of misrecognition to consider the current orthodoxies of scaling up. I argue that the focus on âprocessâ and âimplementation problemsâ: (1) both obscures and legitimates the ways in which the field logics of practice actually work and, (2) produces/reproduces the inequitable distribution of educational benefits (capitals and life opportunities). I suggest that the notion of misrecognition might provide a useful lens through which to examine reform initiatives and explanations of their success/failure