Practice on a Workshop Utilizing Web-based Investigation System for Teachers’ Judgments on Students’ Performance

Abstract

In this research, we developed and evaluated a workshop utilizing Web-based Investigation System for Teachers’ Judgments on Students’ Performance (Wits). The aim was to facilitate teachers to reflect on their teaching methods and consider how to improve them based on the analysis results of Wits. When a user inputs the data of students’ actual performances of examinations or tasks along with the data of teachers’ predictions, Wits automatically calculates the accuracy of teachers’ predictions based on a statistical model. We designed and conducted a workshop for teachers to use Wits and to hold a group discussion on the results shown by Wits and how to improve their teaching methods. The results of a questionnaire and recorded discussion implied that through the activities of the workshop, the participants were able to recognize students’ learning impasses that they had not expected. In addition, we need to add other activities that support teachers in their endeavor to consider students’ essential learning impasses and how they should deal with it.