Investigating the Physiological Impact of Teaching Analytics Tools on Educators in Business Education: A Look at Teachers' Perspective Using Students' Repertory Grid Exercises
Teaching analytics dashboards, designed to facilitate formative assessment feedback and feed-forward refinements to ongoing instructional practices, have shown promising results in a recent study involving six university teachers. These dashboards offer several benefits and implications for educators, particularly when informed by eye-tracking data and teacher feedback.
Enhanced Real-Time Formative Assessment
Teaching analytics dashboards provide a dynamic, visual overview of student learning progress and comprehension. This real-time insight enables teachers to quickly identify areas where students struggle, supporting immediate instructional adjustments and improving responsiveness to diverse student needs.
Improved Instructional Practices
Data from eye-tracking helps reveal how students engage with learning materials, allowing teachers to understand attention patterns and cognitive load. This insight guides refinements in teaching strategies, optimizing material presentation and pacing for better learning outcomes.
Data-Driven Personalization
The integration of analytics facilitates personalized curriculum design by highlighting individual and group learning trajectories. Teachers can use this information to adapt content and assessments continuously, increasing engagement and learner satisfaction.
Informed Teacher Feedback and Awareness
Combining teacher feedback with analytics dashboards enhances awareness of student mental states and learning behaviors. This can lead to holistic support approaches, blending academic and well-being considerations, thereby improving overall educational experiences.
Support for Adaptive Learning Ecosystems
The use of dashboards aligns with adaptive learning systems where continuous feedback loops drive engagement improvements and instructional alignment without overburdening educators with manual data analysis.
Reduction in Teacher Workload and Bias
Automated insights from dashboards streamline formative assessment cycles, reducing the time teachers spend on manual evaluation. This allows more focus on interactive and personalized teaching.
Potential Challenges and Considerations
While benefits are clear, motivating consistent student engagement with analytics tools is important. Ease of integration with existing teaching practices and perceived relevance are crucial for success. Additionally, attention should be given to privacy and ethical use of eye-tracking and behavioral data.
In summary, teaching analytics dashboards informed by eye-tracking data and teacher input foster a more precise, adaptive, and student-centered approach to formative assessment and instruction. They empower teachers with actionable insights, enable real-time adjustments, and support personalized learning pathways, all while improving engagement and reducing administrative burden.
The teaching analytics dashboards were evaluated using a bio-metric usability study with six university teachers, including eye-tracking data. Findings from the study informed the iterative design of the dashboards, making them less cluttered and more effective for teachers' pedagogical decision-making. These dashboards are intended to support teachers in investigating and comparing personal constructs and element ratings by students for given topics of study at various levels (individual student, group, or classroom). The study is about two teaching analytics dashboards designed for visualizing students' repertory grid exercise data.
- Incorporating technology such as teaching analytics dashboards, enriched with eye-tracking data and teacher feedback, can contribute significantly to improved education-and-self-development practices because they offer insights that empower teachers to adjust their instructional approaches in real-time, personalize learning, and reduce administrative burdens.
- To fully capitalize on the potential benefits of technology in education-and-self-development, it is essential to address challenges such as ensuring consistent student engagement, easy integration with existing teaching practices, and ethical handling of eye-tracking and behavioral data for a positive impact on overall learning experiences.
