Progress Portfolio: Designing reflective tools for a classroom context

Ben Loh*, Josh Radinsky, Eric Russell, Louis M. Gomez, Brian Reiser, Daniel C. Edelson

*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

A great deal of effort has gone into developing open-ended inquiry activities for science education as well as complex computer tools for accessing scientific data to help students learn science. To be successful with these tools and activities, students need to learn a set of inquiry skills and to develop a new mode of classroom work: reflective inquiry. In this paper we describe the design of the Progress Portfolio, a software environment to promote reflective inquiry, and we examine the influences of the unique practices and features of classroom contexts on our design process.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages627-634
Number of pages8
StatePublished - Jan 1 1998
EventProceedings of the 1998 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI - Los Angeles, CA, USA
Duration: Apr 18 1998Apr 23 1998

Other

OtherProceedings of the 1998 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI
CityLos Angeles, CA, USA
Period4/18/984/23/98

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Software
  • Human-Computer Interaction
  • Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design

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