| Title:
iESP Online: The Experience of Time at Work
Faculty Client:
Dr. Dawna Ballard, diballard@mail.utexas.edu
Student Developer(s):
Abbas Lotia
Project Description:
Rather than have students focus solely on the skills they are learning
in their internships (as is traditionally done), it is important
for them to also reflect on what having that career would mean for
their lives both in and out of the workplace. Specifically, students
make observations about time commitments and temporal arrangements
that characterize that occupation and then extrapolate that information
to what that would mean for their quality of life.
Data from interviews and students’ own qualitative reflections
over the semester is collected via PDAs that they check out at the
beginning of the course (and take home, to work, wherever they please).
This data is collected through a program called iESP that prompts
them with closed ended (Likert-type) questions randomly at different
times of the day to reflect on how they are experiencing various
dimensions of time at that very moment. This quantitative data is
then given to them in summary version at the end of the semester
so that they can see how their experience of time changes across
the day (morning, afternoon, evening), week (early, mid, late, weekend),
and project (early, mid, late).
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