Quantifying College Students’ Active Listening Skills in Collaborative Activities: Development and Validation of Metrics

• In Event: AERA Research-in-Progress Roundtable Session 1
  In Invited Roundtable: Education Research and Measurement: Student Listening, Fear of Failure, Creative Thinking, and Digital Resilience (Table 13)

Abstract

Active listening, a key component of social-emotional skills, is essential in collaborative learning. It fosters inclusive collaboration and meaningful contributions, while its absence disrupts group dynamics and affects learning outcomes. Developing active listening skills requires deliberate practice and constant feedback which relies on accurate measurement. Existing instruments rely mostly on self-reported surveys and focus on professional training, rather than higher education collaborative learning. My long-term research focuses on developing an automatic feedback system leveraging Multimodal Learning Analytics to analyze students’ verbal and nonverbal data and provide actionable feedback for enhancing active listening skills. The current study focuses on creating and validating metrics to assess students’ active listening skills, which will lay the foundation for developing the pedagogical feedback system.

Author

• Xiaomeng Huang, New York University