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Practice of Skills for Reading Comprehension in Large Classrooms by Using a Mobile Collaborative Support and Microblogging

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Collaboration and Technology (CRIWG 2017)

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Reading comprehension is essential for students, because it is a predictor of their academic or professional success, however, it is challenging for many students, even more if they are part of large classrooms. This paper presents a work which uses Design-Based Research with the purpose of combining theories, methods and techniques of the educational sciences to design a collaborative learning activity including peer evaluation to develop the skills of reading comprehension, oral and written communication. It also presents an application for iPads supporting teacher and students performing this activity. The most relevant contributions of the proposed design are two: (1) teachers can in real time automatically configure the members of the work teams using 3 different criteria: random, individual performance hitherto achieved by the student achieved in previous stages of the same activity, or the learning styles of each student prefers; and (2) the prior calibration of an evaluation rubric in order to ensure the quality of the application of the peer evaluation method in order to grade the answers students produce to an individual reading comprehension test. In addition, other methods and techniques are incorporated, such as: monitoring students’ performance in real time; active learning based on peer instruction to support the strategy of reading comprehension implemented.

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This paper was supported by Fondecyt Regular 1161200.

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  1. Department of Information Systems and Management Control, Faculty of Economics and Business, Universidad de Chile, Diagonal Paraguay 257, Santiago, Chile

    Gustavo Zurita

  2. Department of Computer Sciences, Universidad de Chile, Beaucheff 851, Santiago, Chile

    Nelson Baloian & Sergio Peñafiel

  3. Economics and Business Faculty, Teaching and Learning Centre, Universidad de Chile, Diagonal Paraguay 257, Santiago, Chile

    Oscar Jerez

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Zurita, G., Baloian, N., Jerez, O., Peñafiel, S. (2017). Practice of Skills for Reading Comprehension in Large Classrooms by Using a Mobile Collaborative Support and Microblogging. In: Gutwin, C., Ochoa, S., Vassileva, J., Inoue, T. (eds) Collaboration and Technology. CRIWG 2017. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10391. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-63874-4_7

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