Tracing the Effect of Computerized Feedback on Learner Summaries: A Qualitative Analysis of Structural Change

• In Event: Non-traditional Instructional Opportunities

Short Description

In this study, we examined how students made changes in their summaries of complex scientific texts, supported by a technology-enhanced feedback system. Referring to system-generated indices that describe student mental models of texts, we conducted qualitative reviews on selected cases in which students in a graduate-level course wrote at least two revisions of the summaries of texts. Learners used feedback to introduce more relevant concepts and build an integrated structure in a text by connecting concepts across adjacent sentences.

Authors

• Presenter: Ali Heidari, Georgia State University

• Presenter: Min Kyu Kim, Georgia State University