Identification and presentation of student answers to in-class exercises in classroom learning partner

Abstract

In this thesis. we present a user interface to be used by teachers in K-12 math and science classrooms. Our system collects answers sent by students for in-class exercises and allows the teacher to browse through these answers, annotate them, and display them to the class on a public projector. Through the incorporation of a novel feature of classifying and sorting students' answers according to a variety of user-specified criteria, we help the teacher identify educationally valuable examples and monitor selected students' progress. We also give the teacher the ability to create multiple displays of students' work. The teacher can display students' answers one at a time, or can show them side by side in comparison with answers to different questions or with answers from other students. She then can show some of these displays on the public projector and use them as basis for am in-class discussion.