Toward a Pedagogy of Writing Process Feedback: Utilizing User Experience to Enhance Educational Research Tools

• In Event: AERA Roundtable Session Sunday 9:50 am Four Seasons Ballroom 2-3
  In Roundtable Session: Renewing Writing Processes and Priorities (Table 8)

Abstract

Our research involves a collaborative international effort to improve writing pedagogy through a focus on writing process feedback. Specifically, our study details a study conducted by a researcher from the United States and research team in Belgium using Inputlog, a keystroke-logging software tool designed for the visualization and analysis of the writing process (Leijten & Van Waes, 2013). The presentation reports on efforts to develop and test curricula and teacher training materials designed to improve implementation of writing process feedback pedagogies in secondary and post-secondary classrooms. The presentation describes our use of human-centered design principles to evaluate and refine Inputlog, which was initially designed for research, as a process feedback tool for educators.

Authors

• Justin Young, Metropolitan State University of Denver

• Mariëlle Leijten, University of Antwerp

• Luuk Van Waes, University of Antwerp

• Charlie Potter, Metropolitan State University of Denver