Definitions

=**Inquiry and Measurement Definition with list of Purpose, Benefits, and Challenges**= Complete Team Formation and Course Wiki before you begin this task. In your newly formed teams, discuss and describe what the terms "inquiry" and "measurement" mean and why knowing about them will be important in the future. Post your definition to the course wiki. Be sure to label your definition with your team number and team member names.

From looking at the wiki, it looks like we only have to provide a definition/explanation for each term and tell why these are important to your future. Does everyone else read it this way? (Sarah)

I copied in the table from the class wiki. Here is my proposed mash-up of our answer, please edit, give feedback on the page or in the comments, etc. (GM)

I think this reads very well, considering it came from four sources. I just changed a couple of punctuation marks, I couldn't find anything that required editing. (LG)

**Good job team. I guess four minds are better than one. Looks good to me. Should we have Gina (communications officer) do our posting for this phase? (LE)**

I think the definitions and explanations look good and are ready to be posted. (Sarah) ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 * Team 2**
 * < **Inquiry Definition/Description** ||< **Measurement Definition/Description** ||
 * < Inquiry is the process of asking "why" and "what if". It involves questioning, searching for information, examining facts or principles, increasing knowledge, resolving doubt, and eventually solving a problem. Inquiry aids in finding underlying causes of problems, determining if attempts have already been made to solve the problem, and determines if a problem even exists. Challenges to inquiry are knowing what resources to use to resolve cognitive conflicts or limited access to these resources, assembling adequate team to conduct inquiry, perceptions of stakeholders relating to data collection, and the filters the person performing the inquiry may have that interfere with the information seeking process required during an inquiry. || According to Salkin (26), "Measurement is the assignment of labels to a variable or an outcome." In other words, Measurement is a collection of information that estimates the magnitude of some attribute relative to a standard including errors and uncertainties, with the outcome expressed in numeric form. Measurement is important to validity and value of resources used in research, training, and other related tasks should be measured before being utilized. Collecting measurements ensures performance improvement strategies are effective when implemented and are aiding in reaching the organization's overall goals. Measurement is one way to determine that goals are being met or to validate or invalidate hypotheses. Challenges to effective measurement are effectively collecting data without bias and similar settings for data collection, measuring the right things, and assigning correct labels to variables. ||
 * Why these are important to your future:**
 * Inquiry is important because research is necessary to find answers to questions, and these answers help make improvements in the world.
 * Measurement is important to help determine if it is worth spending resources on a problem or project. Also a legacy of data collection may be necessary to compare information over a period of time to predict trends. **++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++**

Inquiry
Research (LG) A process of asking why and what if (LE) || Determine if attempts have been made to solve the problem (LG) Determing if a problem even exists (LE) || To determine if improvements need to be made and if so, then what improvements or modifications (LE) || Assembling adequate team to conduct inquiry; perceptions of stakeholders relating to data collection (LG) The person doing the inquiry has to eliminate his/her filters to information . Being a stakeholder, an expert in the field, or beholding politically to the entity that has requested the inquiry will all affect information seeking behavior. (GM) Being open minded, having a willingness to change || I would say important because it's necessary to perform research to get answers to questions, to help make improvements in the world (LG) If we did not have inquiry, we would be always be content with the staus quo and would still be hunter/gatherers wearing animal skins with no technology or improvements (LE) ||
 * Definition || questioning; searching for information; examining facts or principles; increasing knowledge; resolving doubt; solving a problem (SC)
 * //Purpose// || Finding underlying causes of problems (GM)
 * //Benefits// || To make improvements at any level, from local to global (LG)
 * //Challenges// || <span style="color: rgb(2, 27, 232);">Knowing what resources to use to resolve cognitive conflicts or limited access to these resources (SC)
 * //Why important to our future// || <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 249);">I'm not really sure what they are asking here..what future do they mean, the class or our career? I think the knowing what to inquire about is what is important, what data do you have to think to seek information about? Otherwise you could get incomplete or wrong data from an inquiry, and then you will get the wrong measurements. (GM)

<span style="color: rgb(2, 27, 232);"> <span style="color: rgb(2, 27, 232);"> <span style="color: rgb(244, 0, 255);"> <span style="color: rgb(2, 27, 232);"> Measurement
Collection of information (LG) <span style="color: rgb(142, 0, 255);">According to Salkin page 26, "Measurement is the assignment of labels to a variable or an outcome" (LE) || <span style="background-color: rgb(239, 98, 232);">Especially in these times, resources are scarce. Measuring ensures that when you apply resources, they are addressing the problem for which they were deployed. If they don't, adjustments can be made (with more inquiry?) (GM) To solve problems based on collected data (LG) <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(122, 12, 212);">For comparisons and ranking purposes (LE) || To determine if goals are being met or objectives are being met (LG) <span style="color: rgb(104, 7, 156);">To validate/invalidate hypothesis (LE) || <span style="background-color: rgb(239, 98, 232);">Its important to measure the right things. You could have great measurements in place, but if it isn't giving you the information you really need, what good are they? Being able to effectively collect data, with no bias and similar settings for data collection (LG) <span style="color: rgb(100, 8, 155);">Assigning the correct labels to the variables (LE) || <span style="color: rgb(21, 15, 15);">A legacy of data collection is necessary to compare information over a period of time to predict trends (LG) <span style="color: rgb(79, 5, 138);">In order to validate your hypothesis, you must test it using measurements of the variables (LE) ** ||
 * Definition || E<span style="color: rgb(2, 27, 232);">stimating the magnitude of some attribute relative to a standard; measurement includes errors and uncertainties and trying to reduce these is key; expressing outcomes in numbers (SC)
 * //Purpose// || <span style="color: rgb(2, 27, 232);"><span style="color: rgb(2, 30, 184);"><span style="color: rgb(2, 27, 232);">It is important to measure the success of performance improvement strategies that have been implemented, as well as, individual learner outcomes, using measurement instruments. Additionally, the validity and value of resources used in research, training, and other related tasks should be measured before being utilized . (SC)
 * //Benefits// || <span style="color: rgb(2, 27, 232);">Ensures that performance improvement strategies are effective when implemented and are aiding in reaching the organization's overall goals. Ensures that individual learners are benefiting from performance improvement measures. (SC)
 * //Challenges// || I<span style="color: rgb(2, 27, 232);">t can be hard to measure the success of some performance improvement measures. There are always uncertainties and errors in measurement. It can be hard to eliminate bias from measurement instruments. (SC)
 * //Why important to our future// || <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 249);">Again, not really sure what they are asking about measurement. But in business, everything is measured. You have to determine is it worth spending resources on a problem or project, and measurement helps with that. (GM)

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