Building a Better Dashboard: Evidence-Based Design Principles for an Educative Dashboard for Learning Games

• In Event: 51.053 - Analytics and User-Centered Approaches to Guide Design

Abstract

This paper presents a set seven of evidence-based design principles for building “educative dashboards” to help teachers improve at making inferences about student learning using data from games. We discuss the iterative, design-based research process we used to revise an existing data dashboard and embed educative materials designed to deepen teachers’ understanding of gameplay data and build their formative assessment competency in four ways: strengthening their pedagogical content knowledge of argumentation; helping them understand how the game operationalized argumentation; connecting argumentation in the game to argumentation in the real world; and helping teachers make data-driven decisions about differentiating instruction. We discuss the implications for the fields of game-based learning, data driven decision making, and data dashboard development.

Authors

• James Diamond, Johns Hopkins University

• Noah Goodman, Education Development Center, Inc.

• Paula Angela Escuadra, LRNG

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