Using Problem-Based Learning Analytics to Investigate Individual and Collaborative Mathematics Learning in a Digital Environment Over Time

支持丰富的学生学习，话语，并在技术增强的教室合作可能是一个重大的挑战，因为技术可以作为一个障碍，以交谈。该项目支持开发一个嵌入丰富的中学数学任务的协作数字学习环境。该项目旨在了解数字平台如何增强学生在学习数学方面的个人和协作参与，以及学生的参与和学习如何在为期一年的七年级课程中受到影响。该项目将使用Connected Mathematics Project材料开发初始数字协作平台，这是一个丰富的，基于问题的中年级数学课程。利用数字笔记本、平台分析和其他课堂产品，该团队将开发一套数字平台的设计特征，以支持学生在学习数学方面的协作。该项目将探讨与学生在技术平台上的学习和协作相关的两个关键问题：该平台如何提高学生的个人和协作参与，以及学生的学习成果，参与，在一个学年里，这个平台被反复使用，态度也随之形成。该项目将使用该平台收集与学生协作，参与，教学实践，课堂文物以及学生和教师的书面和口头数学反思相关的数据。研究成果将包括在技术增强的数学教育中使用学习分析的研究方法的指导方针，对使用数字笔记本支持有意义的STEM学习的设计功能的理解，以及使用数字学习资源支持学生个人需求的师生边界的性质。该项目将侧重于深入研究七年级课程中的一个关键数学思想，比例推理，以了解学生的理解如何随着时间的推移使用该平台的影响。项目活动将包括与学生一起开发和测试平台，与教师一起进行试点和实地测试，并为教师提供专业学习机会，以确保在实践中周到地实施平台。发现研究preK-12计划（DRK-12）旨在显着提高preK-12学生和教师的科学，技术，工程和数学（STEM）的学习和教学，通过研究和开发创新资源、模式和工具。DRK-12项目中的项目建立在STEM教育的基础研究以及为拟议项目提供理论和经验依据的先前研究和开发工作的基础上。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

Supporting rich student learning, discourse, and collaboration in technology-enhanced classrooms can be a significant challenge as technology can act as an impediment to conversation. This project supports the development of a collaborative digital learning environment that embeds rich middle school mathematics tasks. The project aims to understand how students' individual and collaborative engagement in learning mathematics is enhanced by the digital platform, and how student engagement and learning is affected over the course of a year-long seventh grade course. The project will develop the initial digital collaborative platform using the Connected Mathematics Project materials, a rich, problem-based middle grades mathematics curriculum. Using digital notebooks, platform analytics, and other class artifacts, the team will develop a set of design characteristics for digital platforms that support student collaboration in learning mathematics.This project will explore two key questions related to student learning and collaboration in the technological platform: how does the platform enhance students' individual and collaborative engagement, and how do student learning outcomes, engagement, and attitudes develop over an academic year in which the platform is used repeatedly. The project will use the platform to collect data related to student collaboration, engagement, instructional practices, classroom artifacts, and written and spoken mathematical reflections from students and teachers. The research outcomes will include guidelines for a research-based approach to the use of learning analytics in technology-enhanced mathematics education, an understanding of design features that support meaningful STEM learning using digital notebooks, and the nature of the teacher-student boundaries in using digital learning resources to support students' individual needs. The project will focus on a deep examination of a key mathematical idea in the seventh-grade curriculum, proportional reasoning, to understand how students' understandings are influenced over time using the platform. Project activities will include development and testing of the platform with students, pilot and field testing with teachers, and professional learning opportunities for teachers to ensure thoughtful implementation of the platform in practice.The Discovery Research preK-12 program (DRK-12) seeks to significantly enhance the learning and teaching of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) by preK-12 students and teachers, through research and development of innovative resources, models and tools. Projects in the DRK-12 program build on fundamental research in STEM education and prior research and development efforts that provide theoretical and empirical justification for proposed projects.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.