Karla Vrbova

Short description

My PhD project is a part of the research project AI4AfL. This is an interdisciplinary project that focuses on the use of artificial intelligence in feedback on written work by students in junior high school. The working title of my project is Learning to Write.

The projects make use of the same data that is collected by the AI4AfL project – these are students' written work and the feedback generated by the program EAT in addition to the feedback provided by teachers, videos from the classroom, interviews with students and teachers.

Research questions

1. How do students develop their writing skills through the use of automated feedback in a cooperative setting?
2. What role does the teacher’s professional digital competence play when using individually tailored feedback in the classroom?
3. How do students develop their writing skills in the interactions with the teacher and automated feedback over a period of three years?

Objectives

The main focus of my project is to research the possibility of reducing the gap between the reality of Assessment for Learning in the classroom and the ideal of Assessment for Learning in pedagogical theories and to give the teacher a bigger scope through the use of automated feedback. Can this feedback support the students in their writing process and thus create more room for the teacher to support students in their writing process?