The potential of digital tools for enabling the observation of comprehension in the classroom

• Main Authors: Lisbeth M Brevik, Chris Davies
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Universitetsforlaget 2016-01-01
• Series: Nordic Journal of Digital Literacy
• Subjects: Digital Tools; Classroom Observation; Comprehension; Strategies; Upper Secondary School; DigitalTools
• Online Access: https://www.idunn.no/dk/2016/02/the_potential_of_digital_tools_for_enabling_the_observation

This article examines findings about the role of digital tools in supporting teachers in the challenging task of observing student comprehension in upper secondary school. These findings indicate that digital tools can provide valuable information to teachers about students’ uses of comprehension strategies, as well as enabling the students to demonstrate or reflect on their own uses of these strategies. Based on interviews, narratives, and observations in four classrooms, these findings suggest that digital tools potentially afford rich information about student processes of learning, in the course of being used for a variety of specific pedagogical purposes in the classroom.