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Design and evaluation of teacher assistance tools for exploratory learning environments

Sergio, GS; Mavrikis, M; Poulovassilis, A; (2016) Design and evaluation of teacher assistance tools for exploratory learning environments. In: Gašević, D and Lynch, G and Dawson, S and Drachsler, H and Penstein Rosé, C, (eds.) LAK '16: Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Learning Analytics & Knowledge. (pp. pp. 168-172). Association for Computing Machinery (ACM): New York, NY, USA. Green open access

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Abstract

We present our approach to designing and evaluating tools that can assist teachers in classroom settings where students are using Exploratory Learning Environments (ELEs), us- ing as our case study the MiGen system, which targets 11- 14 year old students' learning of algebra. We discuss the challenging role of teachers in exploratory learning settings and motivate the need for visualisation and notification tools that can assist teachers in focusing their attention across the whole class and inform their interventions. We present the design and evaluation approach followed during the develop- ment of MiGen's Teacher Assistance tools, drawing parallels with the recently proposed LATUX workow but also dis- cussing how we go beyond this to include a large number of teacher participants in our evaluation activities, so as to gain the benefit of different view points. We discuss the results of the evaluations, which show that participants ap- preciated the capabilities of the tools and were mostly able to use them quickly and accurately.

Type: Proceedings paper
Title: Design and evaluation of teacher assistance tools for exploratory learning environments
Event: LAK '16: Sixth International Conference on Learning Analytics & Knowledge, 25-29 April 2016, Edinburgh, UK
ISBN-13: 9781450341905
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1145/2883851.2883909
Publisher version: https://doi.org/10.1145/2883851.2883909
Language: English
Additional information: Copyright © 2016 ACM.
Keywords: teacher assistance tools, exploratory learning
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education > IOE - Culture, Communication and Media
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1513496
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