Automated data analysis to support teacher's knowledge building practice

Leng Jing, Johnny Yuen, Wing Wong, Nancy Law, Yonghe Zhang, Stéphane Allaire, Christian Perreault, Thérèse Laferrière, Christopher Teplovs

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Abstract

Incorporating asynchronous online discussions as an integral part of introducing knowledge building (KB) in the formal school curriculum poses significant challenges to teachers. Making sense of the sheer volume of students' postings and identifying appropriate facilitation strategies based on these postings is a daunting, if not impossible task even for experienced teachers. This interactive event show cases the work of two research teams that have been developing tools to address teachers' concerns and researchers' interests on students' participation and idea progression in KB discourses. The approach taken by the team comprising researchers from the Centre for Information Technology in Education (CITE), University of Hong Kong and the Center for Knowledge Engineering (CKE), Beijing Normal University is to develop a web-based discourse analysis tool that can provide various forms of participation statistics as well as automatic coding based on linguistic features. The efforts of the Quebec-based team focuses on the use of lexical analysis, using preset lists of concepts or specialized dictionaries, and visualization of latent semantic analysis results.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationConnecting Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning to Policy and Practice
Subtitle of host publicationCSCL 2011 Conf. Proc. - Community Events Proceedings, 9th International Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning Conf.
Pages1168-1169
Number of pages2
StatePublished - 2011
Externally publishedYes
Event9th International Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning Conference: Connecting Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning to Policy and Practice, CSCL 2011 - Hong Kong, China
Duration: 4 Jul 20118 Jul 2011

Publication series

NameConnecting Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning to Policy and Practice: CSCL 2011 Conf. Proc. - Community Events Proceedings, 9th International Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning Conf.

Conference

Conference9th International Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning Conference: Connecting Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning to Policy and Practice, CSCL 2011
Country/TerritoryChina
CityHong Kong
Period4/07/118/07/11

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