AMOEBA: Designing for Collaboration in Computer Science Classrooms through Live Learning Analytics

Autor/inn/en	Berland, Matthew; Davis, Don; Smith, Carmen Petrick
Titel	AMOEBA: Designing for Collaboration in Computer Science Classrooms through Live Learning Analytics
Quelle	In: International Journal of Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning, 10 (2015) 4, S.425-447 (23 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1556-1607
DOI	10.1007/s11412-015-9217-z
Schlagwörter	Computer Science Education; Active Learning; Programming; Novices; Middle School Students; High School Students; Cooperative Learning; Student Evaluation; Graphs; Data Analysis; Data Collection + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Computer science lessons; Informatikunterricht; Aktives Lernen; Programmierung; Middle school; Middle schools; Student; Students; Mittelschule; Mittelstufenschule; Schüler; Schülerin; High school; High schools; Oberschule; Studentin; Kooperatives Lernen; Schulnote; Studentische Bewertung; Grafische Darstellung; Auswertung; Data capture; Datensammlung
Abstract	AMOEBA is a unique tool to support teachers' orchestration of collaboration among novice programmers in a non-traditional programming environment. The AMOEBA tool was designed and utilized to facilitate collaboration in a classroom setting in real time among novice middle school and high school programmers utilizing the IPRO programming environment. AMOEBA's key affordance is supporting teachers' pairing decisions with real time analyses of students' programming progressions. Teachers can track which students are working in similar ways; this is supported by real-time graphical log analyses of student activities within the programming environment. Pairing students with support from AMOEBA led to improvements in students' program complexity and depth. Analyses of the data suggest that the data mining techniques utilized in and the metrics provided by AMOEBA can support instructors in orchestrating cooperation. The primary contributions of this paper are a set of design principles around and a working tool for fostering collaboration in computer science classes. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01