During our summer, we formed our cross-strand Fall听2021 Data Collection team to begin the all-important task of going into real K鈥�12 classrooms to support teachers implementing our Curriculum Units and collect the data we need to develop our AI Partner.听
This fall, with the help of 24 volunteers, researchers, and听iSAT staff members, we collected 352 audio sessions with听approximately 24 hours of student collaboration data, and听about 150 video files of students collaborating on the unit.听
Denver Public School students measure the amount of water present in this plant's soil using a sensor.
3 St. Vrain Valley Schools (SVVSD) and 9 Denver Public听Schools (DPS) teachers implemented the 5 lesson curriculum across 13 classrooms and over 39 class periods during听the fall while iSAT researchers observed the classrooms and听collected video and audio data of students working together. Data was only collected from consenting students (and听their parents), and their interactions were recorded with a听Yeti microphone connected to an iPad as our main setup.听We also collected comparison audio from a Sony recorder,听or a Zoom handheld recorder. A camcorder and a wide-angle camcorder captured video of the consented groups.听Sometimes an iPad was used to record close-up videos of听interactions among students.
St. Vrain Valley School District middle school students work on the sensor immersion unit.
As data comes in a team at the back-end is hard at work at听cataloging it, checking quality, doing preliminary annotations听and transcriptions, and making recommendations for the听next round. So it is very听much a continuous process and we听are now gearing up for a new round of in-classroom data听collection with a new cohort of teachers starting this Spring.