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| Abstract Title: | Dashboard to Evaluate Student Engagement with PhET Simulations |
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| Abstract: | Student engagement with interactive simulations is affected by the prompts and activities teachers choose to couple with such simulations. In this work, we introduce a prototype dashboard to visualize and evaluate student engagement generated by activities used with a PhET simulation. Engagement in this study is gauged by factors such as the time spent in the activity, the rate and pattern of clicks, and the controls used in the simulation. The dashboard employs several approaches to visualize the students' mouse activity data, showing individual student interaction, aggregated information of an entire group, and the option to compare information of multiple groups simultaneously. To test the dashboard usability, we evaluate student engagement resulting from prompts about factors that affect stored energy in a capacitor using an adaption of the PhET simulation "Capacitor Lab: Basics". The results show the dashboard's potential to aid in improving activity design. |
| Abstract Type: | Contributed Poster Presentation |
| Session Time: | Poster Session II |
| Poster Number: | B84 |
| Contributed Paper Record: | Contributed Paper Information |
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Author/Organizer Information | |
| Primary Contact: |
Diana Berenice López Tavares CICATA, Polytechnic National Institute Calzada Legaria 694 Mexico City, Non U.S. 11500 |
| Co-Author(s) and Co-Presenter(s) |
Sam Reid, Katherine Perkins and Michael Kauzmann University of Colorado Carlos Aguirre Velez CICATA, Polytechnic National Institute |
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