Technology Based Evaluation of Classroom Learning

这项研究将解决的可行性，使教师在高中和大学一级，以评估如何以及他们的学生通过自动分析收集的数据通过技术为基础的仪器的教室学习。这些数据将包括互动教室行为的音频/视频收集，这些行为与既定的表现指标有关。数据收集的结果将被整合到一个DVD演示文稿，将产生反馈的教师自我评估与自我改进的机会，或纳入指导辅导系统。这项工作将建立在三个不同研究领域的基础上：教育，军事情报和互联网技术。这项研究将推进视频处理，重点是与教室相关的自动行为模式分析。它还将增加对先前开发的用于帮助教师改进的手动教室观察指标与从教室传感器阵列收集的相应指标之间的关系的理解。这项工作的开展将有助于查明在应用音频/视频技术方面尚待审议的进展，视频技术的教室监控和教师自我提高，以及对课堂设置的研究创新线的开放。拟议的努力发起了一个新的和重要的研究合作，在弗吉尼亚大学整合的研究人员谁一直在从事改善教育中心的工作，教学和学习的高级研究和研究人员谁一直在从事先进的无线传感器技术的未来应用在无线互联网先进技术中心，美国国家科学基金会赞助的工业/大学合作研究中心。这种合作被认为是推进基于技术的教室评估概念的重要因素。如果成功，这一努力无疑将为改进最初的概念和相应开发新的生产系统创造各种机会。

This research will address the feasibility of enabling teachers at the high school and college levels to evaluate how well their students are learning via an automated analysis of data collected through technology-based instrumentation of their classrooms. The data will include audio/video collections on interactive class room behaviors, which are related to established performance markers. Results of data collections will be integrated into a DVD presentation that will produce feedback for the teacher for self-evaluation with the opportunity for self-improvement, or incorporation into guided coaching systems. The effort will build upon prior efforts from three different research communities: education, military intelligence, and Internet technology. This research will advance video processing that focuses on automated behavior pattern analysis related to a class room. It will also increase understanding of the relationship between previously developed manual class room observation metrics for helping teachers to improve and corresponding metrics gathered from an array of class room sensors. The conduct of this work will lead to identification of yet to be considered advances in the application of audio/video technology to classroom monitoring and teacher self improvement as well as the opening of innovative lines of research on classroom settings.The proposed effort initiates a new and important research collaboration at the University of Virginia integrating the work of researchers who have been engaged in improving education at the Center for Advanced Study of Teaching and Learning and researchers who have been engaged in future applications of advanced wireless sensor technology at the Wireless Internet Center for Advanced Technology, an NSF sponsored Industry/University Cooperative Research Center. This collaboration is considered to be an important element in advancing the concept of technology-based class room evaluation. If successful, this effort will undoubtedly spawn a variety of opportunities for improvement of the initial concept and the corresponding development of new production systems.