Discussion Tracker: Supporting Teacher Learning about Students' Collaborative Argumentation in High School Classrooms
This addresses a specific challenge for high school teachers in developing skills for collaborative argumentation, but it is incremental as it applies existing analytics methods to a new educational domain.
The paper tackled the problem of teaching collaborative argumentation in K-12 classrooms by developing Discussion Tracker, a system that classifies argument moves, specificity, and collaboration, with results showing teachers found it useful and classifiers achieved moderate to substantial agreement with humans.
Teaching collaborative argumentation is an advanced skill that many K-12 teachers struggle to develop. To address this, we have developed Discussion Tracker, a classroom discussion analytics system based on novel algorithms for classifying argument moves, specificity, and collaboration. Results from a classroom deployment indicate that teachers found the analytics useful, and that the underlying classifiers perform with moderate to substantial agreement with humans.