TY - GEN
T1 - Online curriculum planning behavior of teachers
AU - Maull, Keith E.
AU - Saldivar, Manuel Gerardo
AU - Sumner, Tamara
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - Curriculum planning is perhaps one of the most important tasks teachers must perform before instruction. While this task is facilitated by a wealth of existing online tools and resources, teachers are increasingly over-whelmed with finding, adapting and aligning relevant resources that support them in their planning. Consequently, ripe research opportunities exist to study and understand online planning behavior in order to more generally characterize planning behavior. In this paper, we introduce a web-based curriculum planning tool and study its use by middle and high school Earth science teachers. We ex-amine the web analytics component of the tool and apply clustering algorithms to model and discover patterns of the use within the system. Our initial results provide insights into the use of the tool over time and indicate teachers are en-gaging in behavior that show affinity for the use of interactive digital resources as well as social sharing behaviors. These results show tremendous promise in developing teacher-centric analysis techniques to improve planning technologies and techniques to study online curriculum planning patterns.
AB - Curriculum planning is perhaps one of the most important tasks teachers must perform before instruction. While this task is facilitated by a wealth of existing online tools and resources, teachers are increasingly over-whelmed with finding, adapting and aligning relevant resources that support them in their planning. Consequently, ripe research opportunities exist to study and understand online planning behavior in order to more generally characterize planning behavior. In this paper, we introduce a web-based curriculum planning tool and study its use by middle and high school Earth science teachers. We ex-amine the web analytics component of the tool and apply clustering algorithms to model and discover patterns of the use within the system. Our initial results provide insights into the use of the tool over time and indicate teachers are en-gaging in behavior that show affinity for the use of interactive digital resources as well as social sharing behaviors. These results show tremendous promise in developing teacher-centric analysis techniques to improve planning technologies and techniques to study online curriculum planning patterns.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/79960499239
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:79960499239
SN - 9780615375298
T3 - Educational Data Mining 2010 - 3rd International Conference on Educational Data Mining
SP - 121
EP - 130
BT - Educational Data Mining 2010 - 3rd International Conference on Educational Data Mining
T2 - 3rd International Conference on Educational Data Mining, EDM 2010
Y2 - 11 June 2010 through 13 June 2010
ER -