empowering students to reflect on their activity with stepup!
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Empowering students to reflect on their activity with StepUp!
Two case studies with engineering students
José Luis Santos, Katrien Verbert, Erik Duval
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http://www.slideshare.net/jlsantoso
http://www.twitter.com/jlsantoso
http://jlsantoso.blogspot.com
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Activities
- Report on blogs- Commenting- Tweeting- Sharing read and skimmed
papers - Time spent on activities
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Activities
- Report on blogs- Commenting- Tweeting- Sharing read and skimmed
papers - Time spent on activities
How can we engage students on these processes (Awareness and
reflection)?
What are the useful traces?
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Where did it come from?
Santos, Jose Luis; Govaerts, Sten; Verbert, Katrien; Duval, Erik. Goal-oriented visualizations of activity tracking: a case study with engineering students, LAK12: International Conference on Learning Analytics and Knowledge, Vancouver, Canada, 29 April - 2 May 2012, ACM
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How do we track the data? (1)
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How do we track the data? (3)
http://atinyarm.appspot.com
Tomorrow -> 11:20 Demo @MATEL workshop
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12 students
http://ariadne.cs.kuleuven.be/stepup/dashboardthesis.jsp
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27 st
uden
ts
http://ariadne.cs.kuleuven.be/stepup/dashboard.jsp
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Eval
uatio
n
• 5 parts:1. open questions (course)2. questions (own awareness and others)3. social media4. StepUp!5. SUS
Time of exposureThesis case study CHI case study
1 week 6 weeks (3 months in total)
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System usability scale
Thesis case study: 77 points
CHI case study: 84 points
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Stronglydisagree
Stronglyagree
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3
4
5
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Q1,2,3: Are you aware how…
you sp
end your e
fforts
and time (Q1)
The members
of your
group sp
end efforts and
time (Q2)
Other peers
spend
efforts and time
(Q3)
To be aware on how
you sp
end time and
efforts is
importa
nt
(Q4)
WHITE = thesis case studyGRAY = chi case study
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Stronglydisagree
Stronglyagree
2
3
4
5
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(Q1) S
TEP UP! Reinforce
s the
transp
arency(Q
2) STEP UP!
helps to underst
and how my
group m
embers sp
end their
efforts (Q
3) STEP UP!
helps to underst
and how other
course
students
spend th
eir efforts
WHITE = thesis case studyGRAY = chi case study
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Conclusions (II)
• Awareness and reflection• Reliability on the data
– Time– Social communication
http://lakconference.org/Thank you! Any question?