A short history of the use of technology to model and analyze student data for teaching and research
Conference
Cooper, MM, Underwood, SM, Bryfczynski, SP et al. (2014). A short history of the use of technology to model and analyze student data for teaching and research
. ACS SYMPOSIUM SERIES, 1166 219-239. 10.1021/bk-2014-1166.ch012
Cooper, MM, Underwood, SM, Bryfczynski, SP et al. (2014). A short history of the use of technology to model and analyze student data for teaching and research
. ACS SYMPOSIUM SERIES, 1166 219-239. 10.1021/bk-2014-1166.ch012
The use of technology for teaching, learning and research has become almost ubiquitous in the chemistry classroom from student response systems, simulations and virtual environments, to online courses complete with assessments. The data generated by such activities can provide insight into how students learn and how we might provide environments that support learning. However, to take full advantage of the affordances of technology, the activities that students perfom must be meaningful and must generate useful data that can shed light on student learning and trajectories towards competence. In this paper we present examples from our work describing how we have used technology to investigate and assess student learning with large enrollment courses.
