Modelling the teachers' feedback process for the design of an electronic interactive science tool with automatic feedback

Whitelock, Denise; Pinto, Roser and Saez, Marcel.la (2010). Modelling the teachers' feedback process for the design of an electronic interactive science tool with automatic feedback. International Journal of Continuing Engineering Education and Life-Long Learning, 20(2) pp. 189–207.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1504/IJCEELL.2010.036815

Abstract

This paper models the feedback teachers give to students who are using an interactive computer tutorial (Nefreduca) to help them understand key biological concepts related to the kidney. Nefreduca consists of a series of open source science inquiry based web learning materials targeted at children with chronic kidney disease. It utilises a scenario based approach drawing on the work of Lijnse (1995) and Buty, Tiberghien & Le Marechal (2004). The hospital teachers who assisted the children with their use of Nefreduca reported learning gains with the system but there is no automatic feedback for autonomous learning with Nefreduca when children are unsupported by a teacher. An ethnographic approach was adopted to then understand how teachers provided feedback to the students in order to devise a model of supportive feedback to the chronically ill students, which can be implemented in the next version of Nefreduca.

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  • Item ORO ID
  • 24521
  • Item Type
  • Journal Item
  • ISSN
  • 1741-5055
  • Project Funding Details
  • Funded Project NameProject IDFunding Body
    Not SetNot SetConsell Social de la Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB, Ref: Ref: 200700047154)
    Not SetNot SetSpanish Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia (MICCIN, Ref: CCT005-06-00169).
  • Keywords
  • feedback; chronically ill students; science concepts; models; automatic feedback
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  • Institute of Educational Technology (IET)
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  • © 2010 Inderscience Enterprises Ltd.
  • Depositing User
  • Denise Whitelock
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