Deliverable 4.4 - INSEAD CALT

AtGentive IST-4-027529-STP - Attentive Agents for Collaborative LearnersAt school Ialways receivedgood gradesI fully understandhow to use theICDT platformI understand all theheadings on theICDT platformMann-Whitney U 3.500 4.000 3.500Wilcoxon W 24.500 25.000 24.500Z -2.180 -2.056 -2.213Exact Sig. (2-tailed) 0.037 0.048 0.035Table 17 - Mann-Whitney test results for AtGentNet questionnaire. To save space, onlysignificant results are shown4.3.1.3. InterviewsTelephone interviews were conducted with an opportunity sample of users (chosen ashaving shown interest in the course and thus assumed more likely to be willing to beinterviewed). It was possible to conduct interviews with six students – four from theExperimental group and two from the Control group.A semi-structured interview format was used. The starting point was the Key Indicators,with one question per indicator. The interviewers then used their judgement to encouragethe interviewee to elaborate on any specific comments that may be of particularrelevance. The initial questions were as follows:• Key Indicator: Performanceo How has the ICDT platform supported you in the ITM-concept?• Key Indicator: Satisfactiono How satisfied are you with the ICDT platform?o Encourage them to describe the good and bad points of the system.• Key Indicator: Learning (What have they learned?)o What would you say that the ICDT platform contributed to the ITMCourse from the learning point of view?• Key Indicator: Collaborationo How did you find the two collaboration initiatives from Albert Angehrn?(Reflections on the EIS simulation 12 (June 2007) and the Eagle Racingsimulation 13 .)o If they did not participate in the EIS-simulation then try to find out whynotPerformancePerformance and satisfaction were the areas most mentioned by the interviewees. Allinterviewees gave ease of accessing documents as the main feature that boosted their12 A simulated six-month process of persuading managers in a corporation to adopt an ExecutiveInformation System13 A simulated set of business dilemmas in which the fictional Eagle Racing company attempts tofind sponsors for their motor racing team (see Section 2.2.7)Del 4.4: AtGentive Final Evaluation Report page 67