Venue: Ponderosa Commons Oak House, Multipurpose Room 2012
Presenter: Dr. Andrew Gibson, Lecturer, Queensland University of Technology, Australia
All welcome. Light refreshments will be provided.
This talk will take place on the traditional, unceded, and ancestral territories of the Musqueam people.
Please note that this public talk has been cancelled for now due to travel concerns over the COVID-19 virus.
Using Reflective Writing Analytics for Insight into Pre-service Teacher Assessment Capacity
Andrew Gibson from Queensland University of Technology (QUT) will outline recent research work that uses Reflective Writing Analytics (RWA) to help gain insights into pre-service teachers capacities with respect to assessment. The research involves capturing regular personal reflections from pre-service teachers over a period of time using web-based software called GoingOK. These reflections are analysed using natural language processing technologies, in a socio-technical pragmatic approach where socio-cultural interpretive research informs the development of the analysis, and iterations of analytics inform the emergence of the interpretation. Andrew will provide examples of the RWA and present a case for using similar approaches in other learning analytics research.
Andrew Gibson is a Lecturer in information interaction and data analytics at Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Brisbane, Australia. Andrew’s research centres on the interaction between people and technology, particularly in the field of Learning Analytics. This work includes theoretical work on transepistemic abduction, applied research in the area of reflective writing analytics, and philosophical explorations of Peircian pragmatism. Andrew created and maintains the open-source software GoingOK and TAP (Text Analytics Pipeline), which are used for reflective writing analytics research at QUT and the Connected Intelligence Centre, UTS, Sydney. Originally a secondary school music teacher, specialising in music technology, Andrew has also worked in IT management, tech start-up management, and creative production management. Andrew’s qualifications include a PhD from QUT, a Bachelor degree in Educational Studies, Postgraduate Diploma IT, and Diploma of Teaching.