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Robust evaluation for a maturing field: the train the teacher method
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posted on 2023-06-08, 18:08 authored by Judy Robertson, Andrew Macvean, Kate HowlandKate HowlandThis paper highlights the importance of evaluating educational technology for children in naturalistic classroom contexts. We present the train the teacher method (TTM) which formalizes a method for IDC researchers to use when deploying and validating an educational system. Our key findings indicate the need to work in partnership with classroom teachers, providing both initial training and continued support. This will both result in more valuable research data, and address a gap in teachers’ continued professional development. The TTM aims to ensure that teachers, students, and researchers can benefit from innovative educational systems deployed in real classroom contexts. We believe that the TTM could be adapted to other domains of study within interaction design community. The paper goes on to argue the more general point that the interaction design and children community should shift emphasis away from technology innovation and towards reporting replicable longitudinal research findings from real-world settings. We discuss possible approaches to achieving this, for example through changes to reviewing criteria and by actively supporting data and source code sharing.
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International Journal of Child-Computer InteractionISSN
2212-8689Publisher
ElsevierExternal DOI
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2Volume
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50-60Department affiliated with
- Informatics Publications
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2014-08-28Usage metrics
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