CARA (Child Abuse Risk Assessment): A Situated Evaluation of an Innovative Learning Environment

Five child protection investigators participated in the study, and qualitative data was collected by means of a variety of probes. Reader-response theory, which seeks to understand the transaction between the reader, text, and context, guided the analysis of the data. Results showed that CARA was used in unique ways by each investigator to construct a flexible understanding of the domain of child abuse in varying forms, and therefore the user's transaction with the innovation is a crucial variable in evaluating innovations. The meaning of an innovation is determined not so much by the developer's idealization of it, but the process by which it comes to be used and realized.

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Education

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2015

Author dc:creator

• Choksi, Beena Ajit

Contributors dc:contributor

• DeStefano, Lizanne

• Education, Technology of

Language dc:language

eng

Identifier

(MiAaPQ)AAI9989961

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/80427