empowering students to reflect on their activity with stepup!

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? (2)

http://toggl.com

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How do we track the data? (3)

http://atinyarm.appspot.com

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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

2

3

4

5

6

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

6

(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?