Poster #58 - The Teacher Guidance Tool: Using Automated Recommendations to Support Teacher Noticing of Students' Mathematical Ideas

• In Event: 77.059 - MTCC Tuesday Poster Session 18
  In Poster Session: 77.059-8 - Technology as an Agent of Change in Teaching and Learning SIG Poster Session

Abstract

This paper reports on the implementation of a tool to support teacher noticing of student ideas. Instead of giving automated feedback directly to students, the teacher guidance tool (TGT) includes teachers in the guidance process by providing them with feedback recommendations based on student responses. Four Geometry teachers gave feedback on their students’ open-response mathematical explanations with and without using the TGT. The level of noticing in teacher feedback with the TGT was higher than without the TGT (t = 6.41; p<0.000) with a large effect size (g=0.99). This increase was not accompanied by an additional time burden. Results suggest that having teachers serve as a gate for automated feedback can potentially help make students’ ideas more visible to teachers.

Authors

• Jim Bywater, University of Virginia

• Jennifer L. Chiu, University of Virginia

• James Hong, University of Virginia

• Vidhya Sankaranarayanan, University of Virginia