Visualizing the language of teamwork

Abstract

As 21st Century problems require increasingly complex and creative solutions that are achieved through collaboration, the ability to work effectively in teams has become more important over time. To help students collaborate better, a digital formative assessment tool, My Groupwork Buddy, was developed to build teamwork competency using analytics. The scope of this paper focuses on the recent development of teamwork chatlog visualizations. This paper describes the building of the teamwork text classification system, system flow and two visualizations. Work is underway to evaluate the system, and future work includes refinements to integrate these new visualizations in the system to enable a more holistic formative assessment.