Supporting Equity in Schools: Using Visual Learning Analytics to Understand Learners’ Classroom Experiences

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Title: Supporting Equity in Schools: Using Visual Learning Analytics to Understand Learners’ Classroom Experiences
Abstract/Description: This chapter discusses the affordances of applying user experience (UX) methods to designing technology for understanding learners’ classroom experiences. The chapter highlights a student survey designed to support teachers in building equitable classrooms. The surveys, called “Student Electronic Exit Tickets,” are based on three constructs related to equity: coherence, relevance, and contribution. Survey responses are provided to teachers through a visual analytics dashboard intended to help them readily interpret their learners’ experiences. We explain how UX methods, such as think alouds and cognitive interviews, guided design choices in the dashboard that help teachers attend to equity concerns by disaggregating student data by gender and race. UX methods were also used to validate our argument that visual analytics can be a supportive agent for teachers, prompting them to notice and attend to inequity in their classes. We propose an agenda for future designers of educational technology that incorporates UX methods in the creation of tools that aim to make learning in classrooms more equitable.
Author/creator: Raza, Ali; Penuel, William R.; Jacobs, Jennifer J.; Sumner, Tamara
Date: 2020
In publication: Learner and User Experience Research: An Introduction for the Field of Learning Design & Technology
Editor: Schmidt, Matthew; Tawfik, Andrew A.; Jahnke, Isa; Earnshaw, Yvonne
Publisher: EdTech Books
Resource type: en Research/Scholarly Media
Resource status/form: en Published Text
Scholarship genre: en Textbook
Language: en
Open access/full-text available: en Yes
Peer reviewed: en Yes
URL: Open Access Publisher's Webpage (EdTech Books)
Citation: Raza, A., Penuel, W. R., Jacobs, J., & Sumner, T. (2020). Supporting Equity in Schools: Using Visual Learning Analytics to Understand Learners’ Classroom Experiences. In M. Schmidt, A. A. Tawfik, I. Jahnke, & Y. Earnshaw (Eds.), Learner and User Experience Research: An Introduction for the Field of Learning Design & Technology. EdTech Books. https://edtechbooks.org/ux/supporting_school_equity
Cited in: The Theory and Practice of Democracy and Community

Item sets: Open Access Resource (IRE); Handbook Chapter 6 Citations

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