Playing With Data: Investigating a Dashboard to Support Teacher Formative Assessment With Game Play Data

• In Event: 28.088 - Fairmont Royal York Roundtable Session Four
  In Roundtable Session: 28.088-1 - Data Use Tools and Resources: Models, Literature Reviews, and Dashboards

Abstract

Teachers must be prepared to use data to monitor student progress and make instructional changes. Teachers are using digital games for formative assessment, but there is little research on how they use the data, or how they can learn to use it to support student learning. We developed a digital dashboard with educative features to scaffold teachers’ ability to use gameplay data for formative assessment. We conducted a three-week randomized controlled study with 27 middle school science teachers, comparing teachers who used the educative features to peers without access to those materials. Treatment teachers outperformed comparison teachers on three of six sub-components of a measure of “data literacy for teaching.” We discuss the implications for teacher learning and future work.

Authors

• James Diamond, Johns Hopkins University

• Michelle Cerrone, Education Development Center, Inc.

• Girlie C. Delacruz, University of California - Los Angeles

• Pilar Carmina Gonzalez, Education Development Center, Inc.

• Heather Kim, EDC Center for Children and Technology

• Noah Goodman, Education Development Center, Inc.

• Maggie Lewis Scalli, Education Development Center, Inc.