Measuring and Visualizing Learning in the Information-Rich Classroom

Integrated information systems are increasingly used in schools, and the advent of the technology-rich classroom requires a new degree of ongoing classroom assessment. Able to track web searches, resources used, task completion time, and a variety of other classroom behaviors, technology-rich classrooms offer a wealth of potential information about teaching and learning. This information can be used to track student progress in languages, STEM, and in 21st Century skills, for instance. However, despite these changes, there has been little change in the kind of data made available to teachers, administrators, students, and parents.

Measuring and Visualizing Learning in the Information-Rich Classroom collects research on the implementation of classroom assessment techniques in technology-enhanced learning environments. Building on research conducted by a multinational and multidisciplinary team of learning technology experts, and specialists from around the globe, this book addresses these discrepancies. With contributions from major researchers in education technology, testing and assessment, and education psychology, this book contributes to a holistic approach for building the information infrastructure of the 21st Century school.

Peter Reimann is a Professor for Education at the University of Sydney, Australia, and Senior Researcher in that university’s Research Centre for Computer-supported Learning and Cognition (CoCo).

Susan Bull is Senior Lecturer of Electronic, Electrical, and Computer Engineering at University of Birmingham, UK.

Michael D. Kickmeier-Rust is a Senior Researcher and Project Director at the Cognitive Science Section of the Knowledge Technologies Institute at Graz University of Technology and University Lecturer at the Department of Psychology at Karl-Franzens-University of Graz, Austria.

Ravi Vatrapu is a Professor of Human Computer Interaction at the Department of IT Management, Copenhagen Business School; Professor of applied computing, Westerdals Oslo School of Arts, Communication and Technology; and Director of the Computational Social Science Laboratory (CSSL).

Barbara Wasson is Professor in the Department of Information Science & Media Studies and Director of the Centre for the Science of Learning and Technology (SLATE) at University of Bergen, and Research Leader at Uni Research Health AS.