BiCo: A Bipolar Continuous Rating Scale for Children's Technology Evaluation

Autor/inn/en	Schmitt, Lara Johanna; Rick, Jochen; Weinberger, Armin
Titel	BiCo: A Bipolar Continuous Rating Scale for Children's Technology Evaluation
Quelle	In: Technology, Pedagogy and Education, 28 (2019) 5, S.503-516 (14 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Schmitt, Lara Johanna)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1475-939X
DOI	10.1080/1475939X.2019.1661279
Schlagwörter	Rating Scales; Childrens Attitudes; Computer Attitudes; Interaction; Man Machine Systems; Evaluation; Educational Technology; Elementary School Students; Grade 4; Foreign Countries; Germany + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Rating-Skala; Interaktion; Mensch-Maschine-System; Evaluierung; Unterrichtsmedien; School year 04; 4. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 04; Ausland; Deutschland
Abstract	One challenge of child-computer interaction research is surveying variation of children's attitudes towards novel educational technology, which often results in an opinion ceiling effect. In this article, the authors introduce BiCo -- a bipolar continuous rating scale which builds on children's ability to draw relative comparisons. They elaborate on the development of BiCo and on how they designed it to better survey children's attitudes. Beyond addressing the opinion ceiling effect, BiCo is suitable for surveying a wide range of concepts and its invertible design enables simulation of inverted items. The authors provide data comparing BiCo with the widely used Smileyometer instrument when used by fourth-graders (around 10 years old), demonstrating that BiCo mitigates the opinion ceiling effect. They discuss BiCo as a new tool for children's technology evaluation and provide directions for future research. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01