Personas as a Powerful Methodology to Design Targeted Professional Development Resources

Madsen, Adrian; McKagan, Sarah B.; Sayre, Eleanor C.; Martinuk, Mathew Sandy; Bell, Alexander Graham

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“…By creating archetypes that are very human-like without representing the peculiarities of one person, several bene-fits emerge. First, researchers preserve anonymity of interview subjects because the synthesized patterns are a combination of features from multiple interview subjects [18]. Second, although some fictional details are added to personas to make them more human-like, personas represent real users for which resources are meant to be created instead of the assumptions of designers who may envision a variety of resources that are not useful for the actual target population [19].…”

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Personas for supporting physicists' engagement in informal education

El-Adawy¹,

Sayre²,

Lau³

et al. 2022

2022 Physics Education Research Conference Proceedings

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The pathways and engagement of physicists in informal physics education are varied, which makes their professional development needs not well understood. As part of ongoing efforts to build and support community in the informal physics space, we conducted interviews with physics practitioners and researchers with a range of different experiences. Through thematic analysis, we use personas methodology to articulate the needs and pain points of professional physicists. We present our set of four personas: the physicist who engages in informal physics for self-reflection, the physicist who wants to spark interest in physics, the physicist who wants to provide diverse role models to younger students and inspire them to pursue a STEM career, and the physicist who wants to improve the relationship between scientists and the public. This work will allow the informal physics community to create tailored resources for the variety of professional development needs of informal physics facilitators.

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Personas for supporting physicists' engagement in informal education

El-Adawy¹,

Sayre²,

Lau³

et al. 2022

2022 Physics Education Research Conference Proceedings

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“…Education policy, however, often lags behind (Mezza, 2022 [1]). Various phenomena are noted, including 'a theory-practice gap' (Ulferts, 2021 [2]) and 'burn-out' (Madigan and Kim, 2021 [3]; Weißenfels, Klopp and Perels, 2022 [4]), which indicate the tensions between expectations and the lived reality of teachers at different stages of their career (Mezza, 2022 [1]). At the same time, feedback from teachers overwhelmingly indicates a collegial and collaborative mindset among the majority of them (OECD, 2020 [5]).…”

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Cross-sector and interprofessional collaborations

2022

OECD Education Working Papers

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OECD education systems place a premium on high-quality teaching and look to strengthen the attractiveness of the teaching profession in the mid-to long-term. This paper considers if, when and under what circumstances new or ameliorated interprofessional and crosssectoral collaborations may strengthen the teaching profession. It also introduces "personas" as a tool to illuminate how various stakeholders may respond to a given policy. This tool can inform smarter policy design and implementation choices. Based on the literature within and outside the education sector and concrete, cutting-edge examples, the paper identifies common facilitating features and proposes a set of guiding principles that can aid policy makers and practitioners in decisions related to the introduction or development of cross-sector or interprofessional collaborations. The paper concludes that cross-sector and interprofessional collaborations, under certain circumstances, can strengthen the teaching profession, by supporting, attracting and retaining a diverse teacher workforce and improving student outcomes.

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Personas as a Powerful Methodology to Design Targeted Professional Development Resources

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Personas for supporting physicists' engagement in informal education

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