SBIR Phase I: Asset-Focused Data Mining to Increase Academic Motivation and Achievement

SBIR 第一阶段：以资产为中心的数据挖掘，以提高学术动机和成就

• 批准号: 1046033
• 负责人: Linda Chaput
• 金额: $ 15万
• 依托单位: AGILE MIND INC
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2011-01-01 至 2011-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1046033&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SBIR; Phase; Asset; Focused; Data

This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project studies the feasibility of creating representations of data for teachers and students that are visually compelling, easy to understand, and sharply focused on the goal of identifying and reporting in real time academic accomplishments that are highly positively correlated with meeting important educational goals. Phase I has four goals. First, historical Learning Management System (LMS) usage data are analyzed to identify teacher and student use behaviors positively correlated with high student achievement. Second, prototypes of informational dashboards are designed with the objective of motivating teachers and students to meet teaching and learning goals. Third, functional, executable specifications are designed for the data capture, extraction, and transformation processes to generate information for dashboards. Finally, user studies are conducted to verify that the dashboard design receives positive user responses. Thus, Phase I aims to identify the characteristics of information representations deemed beneficial by experts and potential users; to determine how to represent information to motivate teachers and students by focusing on accomplishments; and to identify the data warehouse requirements for storing, retrieving, and aggregating this information across schools, districts and academic years. The broader impact/commercial potential of this project is significant. The visual representations of data for teachers and students developed in this project advance the positive attributes (assets) of the teaching and learning experience rather than focusing simply on right and wrong answers. With these innovative representations of instructional and performance data, students can see in clear, quantitative terms the power of their effort on their achievement. Teachers can examine their enacted curriculum versus the envisioned curriculum, and see evidence of their successes in engaging the students they work hard to educate. Administrators have an initial rubric for examining learning assets rather than deficits and for supporting work within a positive framework. The project also offers significant commercial potential for Agile Mind. New commercial products could include new or enhanced low-cost reporting tools for students, teachers, schools and districts and for-fee custom reports to schools and districts about student performance with targeted interventions to improve those outcomes.

这个小企业创新研究（SBIR）第一阶段项目研究为教师和学生创建数据表示的可行性，这些数据表示在视觉上引人注目，易于理解，并专注于识别和报告与重要教育目标高度正相关的真实的学术成就的目标。第一阶段有四个目标。首先，分析历史学习管理系统（LMS）使用数据，以识别与高学生成绩正相关的教师和学生使用行为。第二，信息仪表板的原型设计的目标是激励教师和学生，以满足教学和学习目标。第三，为数据捕获、提取和转换过程设计了功能性的、可执行的规范，以生成仪表板的信息。最后，进行用户研究，以验证仪表板设计收到积极的用户响应。因此，第一阶段的目标是确定被专家和潜在用户认为有益的信息表示的特征;确定如何表示信息，通过关注成就来激励教师和学生;并确定存储，检索和汇总这些信息的数据仓库要求。该项目的更广泛影响/商业潜力是显著的。在这个项目中为教师和学生开发的数据的视觉表示推进了教学和学习经验的积极属性（资产），而不仅仅是关注正确和错误的答案。有了这些创新的教学和表现数据表示，学生可以清楚地看到，量化的条款，他们的努力对他们的成就的力量。教师可以检查他们制定的课程与设想的课程，并看到他们在吸引他们努力教育的学生方面取得成功的证据。管理人员有一个初步的规则来检查学习资产，而不是赤字，并在一个积极的框架内支持工作。该项目还为敏捷思维提供了巨大的商业潜力。新的商业产品可以包括为学生、教师、学校和地区提供的新的或增强的低成本报告工具，以及为学校和地区提供的关于学生表现的收费定制报告，并有针对性地采取干预措施，以改善这些结果。