Mirroring dashboards improved teacher situational awareness while alerting-and-guiding dashboards reduced teacher workload and frustration¶

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Evidence · 1 study · theoretical r2 · q2
Currency · newest study 2023 · checked against its sources 2026-10-19 (automated, 1 of 1 entry) · not reviewed by a person

Subclaims¶

q2 i? In a quasi-experiment with teachers (N = 24) in three conditions, a mirroring dashboard helped teachers' situational awareness and the alerting (guiding) dashboard decreased their workload and frustration. → Sanna Järvelä 2023

Evidence¶

Sanna Järvelä 2023¶

Sanna Järvelä, Carolyn P. Rosé. (2023). Reflecting on what counts as collaboration: Reaching forward without losing what is behind. International Journal of Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning, 18, 457–464. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11412-023-09415-y

q2 · i? · theoretical · r2

The editorial reports, citing Kasepalu, Chejara, Prieto and Ley, a quasi-experiment in authentic classrooms where students used a collaborative writing tool face-to-face; teachers (N = 24) were observed, interviewed, and surveyed across three dashboard conditions.

"The results show that a mirroring dashboard helped teachers the situational awareness and alerting dashboard dropped their workload and decreased frustration."

Discussion¶

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• Guiding support stimulated targeted interactions: teachers posted more messages to groups (14 vs 4) and performed more dashboard interventions than under mirroring — related
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