Week 4: Independent Analysis of OPD Content Areas and Improvement Recommendations

Research Questions

• What are the primary content areas covered by OPD resources?
• What recommendations do educators have for improving OPD resources?

Primary Content Areas

Content areas identified by users of OPD resources:

Top 5 Content Areas:

OPD Improvement Recommendations

Top words taken from recommendations listed for Q26 of survey have been narrowed down to remove blanks, stopwords, and stemming.

Test

Refined Recommendations

After viewing the improvement recommendations, I wanted to see if two-word phrases could give a deeper insight.

Conclusions

• There is not a consistent amount of OPD offered for the different content areas (varies by 1,000’s among the top 5). Outside of Elementary education, English, Math, Social Studies, and Science are the top areas covered indicating that the primary focus of OPD is for core departments.

• Top 10 recommendations range from technical issues to specific grade level/common core suggestions. With the bi-gram results (time consuming, easier access, specific examples) provides more insight into what recommendations educators have for OPD.

Discussion

• Limitations: While wrangling data, I needed to adjust from viewing just the top words for the recommendation feedback as using the bi-gram or looking at two-word phrases provided more helpful insight. This could indicate that with this much information, continual adjustments would need to be made to provide more accurate feedback or results.

• Implications: OPD recommendations really range in suggestions, but overall imply that the content (grade level, common core, specific examples) and user/site issues (time consuming, technical issue/glitch) were the strongest suggestions for improvement.

• Next Steps for Analysis: Look into the top 10 recommendations and analyze further. Further explore correlation between top content areas and the feedback/recommendations that were given for these content areas.