Fantastic feedback about Fractions Lab!

We were delighted to receive the following email from Jonathan, a teacher we have been working with on the project for some time. With his permission we share it here. You can read more about the students’ ideas using the project in a blog post Jonathan wrote for us last year here . “It has…

What’s going on behind the scenes?

A summary of the Genoa meeting   Italian partner Testaluna hosted the third project meeting of the Y3 in the vibrant city of Genoa (Italy) on 10th and 11th September. Through a number of and lively breakout and plenary sessions, the members of the Consortium updated each other on many activities ongoing. More in details,…

Evaluation Time

Data collection efforts within iTalk2Learn could be completed yielding more than 80 hours of transcribed audio-corpora for English (37h) and German (44h). These data-sets were divided into separate training and evaluation sets. Both sets need to be disjoint in order to evaluate performance in a fair manner and created in a continuous way (so as…

Analysing data from the first set of summative evaluation trials

We are now analysing the data which was collected during the summative evaluation of the italk2learn platform in the UK. We collected a huge amount of data and we are trying to make sense of it. The data includes information about student’s interaction with the learning platform and also their affective states while interacting with…

First summative evaluation trial in Germany

After a month of international conferences and dissemination activities, RUB’s main goal in June was to get ready for conducting the first summative evaluation trial in a German school. Together with the school, we determined that July would be a good time in the fractions curriculum for students to learn with the iTalk2Learn program. July…