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

这个小企业创新研究（SBIR）第一阶段项目研究了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，并且非常专注于识别和报告实时学术成就的目标，这些成就与实现重要教育目标高度正相关。第一阶段有四个目标。首先，分析历史学习管理系统（LMS）的使用数据，以确定教师和学生的使用行为与高学生成绩呈正相关。其次，设计信息仪表板的原型，目的是激励教师和学生实现教学目标。第三，功能性的、可执行的规范是为数据捕获、提取和转换过程设计的，以便为仪表板生成信息。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专家和潜在用户认为有益的信息表示的特征；确定如何通过关注成绩来表达信息以激励教师和学生；并确定跨学校、学区和学年存储、检索和汇总这些信息的数据仓库需求。这个项目的广泛影响/商业潜力是巨大的。在这个项目中为教师和学生开发的可视化数据表示提升了教学和学习经验的积极属性（资产），而不是简单地关注正确和错误的答案。有了这些创新的教学和表现数据，学生们可以清楚地、定量地看到他们的努力对他们的成就的影响。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准则来检查学习的优点而不是缺点，并在一个积极的框架内支持工作。该项目还为Agile Mind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、学校和地区提供新的或增强的低成本报告工具，以及向学校和地区提供关于学生表现的付费定制报告，并提供有针对性的干预措施以改善这些结果。

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.