In Their Hands: Multimodal Learning Analytics as Reflective-practice Resources Empowering Mathematics Teachers’ Professional Development

This data is linked to the manuscript titled "In their hands: Multimodal learning analytics as reflective-practice resources empowering mathematics teachers’ professional development " for consideration for publication in the Learning and Instruction. This manuscript presents a study that develops and evaluates innovative approaches to supporting teacher education by leveraging multimodal data. Specifically, it utilizes eye-tracking overlaid on multiple-point-of-view videos as a resource to deepen teachers' understanding of learning and teaching.
Five pre-service mathematics teachers (PSMT) participated in this study. First, they collaboratively constructed a body-scale polyhedron while wearing eye-tracking devices. In a subsequent structured reflection session, the participants collectively analyzed eye-tracking-overlaid multiple-point-of-view recordings of their construction activity. Drawing on Goodwin’s Co-Operative Action theory, the researchers then qualitatively micro-analyzed the PSMTs’ individual and interactive multimodal behaviors in both activities.
The technology enabled the PSMTs to highlight, code, and elaborate on nuanced aspects of individuals’ perceptual and social behaviors during the construction activity. These insights led to a spontaneous generalization of pedagogical implications for their own prospective facilitation of classroom group work.