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Training: our strategy and argument
The main focus of our proposal will be the scientific content, but in the one
page allowed for describing the training aspect we will summarise how the
training aspect will be achieved.
KEY POINTS
The essential point of the scientific case is that diverse approaches to IR
evaluation exist (from technical testing of the software without users, to
field studies of users in work settings) and that we propose to explore how
they may be fitted together and applied to the new technlogical challenges
emerging. The 10 sites in the Network represent this range of approaches, for
example from the mainly technical emphasis at our German sites to the mainly
user emphasis at our Danish sites. Moving researchers to work at sites in
other countries will give them training and experience at new techniques,
while causing them to reflect on the relationship between their new skills and
their older skills. Thus our scientific aims, training young researchers in
new skills to equip them with a more multidisciplinary approach, and the
diversity of the participating sites all fit together.
In addition we will ask our young researchers to provide reports on the skills
they have learned, illustrated by examples and data (a little like the
portfolios artists and designers use to illustrate their training and
achievements). These are expected to be useful to later researchers in
directing their own learning. Furthermore, we will ask the young researchers
to produce demonstrations and exercises for use initially in the Network
workshops of the techniques they have learned. During MIRA we produced a few
of these, and they were among the most successful activities. Although
obviously in one hour's exercise a participant takes only a small first step
towards acquiring a new skill, this first step is still much more powerful
than reading a paper in allowing a participant to understand by experience
what the technique means, and whether they are interested in pursuing it
further.
SUBSIDIARY POINTS
[I'm no longer sure why I wrote these down in my notes at the meeting!]
Placements as a complement
Further opportunities for exchange
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