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Curriculum Pacing: A New Approach to Discover Instructional Practices in Classrooms

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This paper examines the use of “pacing plots” to represent variations in student learning sequences within a digital curriculum. Pacing plots are an intuitive and flexible data visualizations that have a potential for revealing the diversity of blended classroom instructional models. By using curriculum pacing plots, we identified several common implementation patterns in real-world classrooms. After analyzing two years’ worth of data from over 150,000 students in a digital math curriculum, we found that a PCA and K-Means clustering approach was able to discover pedagogically relevant instructional practices.

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Patel, N., Sharma, A., Sellman, C., Lomas, D. (2018). Curriculum Pacing: A New Approach to Discover Instructional Practices in Classrooms. In: Nkambou, R., Azevedo, R., Vassileva, J. (eds) Intelligent Tutoring Systems. ITS 2018. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10858. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-91464-0_38

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