A produção de material didático para a formação de professores em análise de dados educacionais

Abstract

The evolution of teaching and learning processes has undergone physical changes in the classroom, in teaching materials, in the way students and teachers interact with each other, and in the relationships of time and space. In this perspective, some educational institutions adopt a Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) to assist students and teachers throughout the teaching and learning processes, which generates a substantial amount of data on how students interact with the tool, forming trails of learning. This work, which follows the Development of Educational Technologies line of research, has sought to elaborate a multimidiatic didactic material in the light of Contextualized Instructional Design (DIC) to promote teacher education aiming at the analysis of educational data arising from the use of a VLE Moodle. With a mixed quanti-quali approach, the data collected by Moodle served as the basis for analyzing the learning paths models of 6th grade students in the English Language course, in a private school located in Natal/RN, throughout the first semester of 2020. The adopted methodology was based on the Knowledge Database Discovery Process (KDD) for transforming data into knowledge, and on the Contextualized Instructional Design for the construction of the Didactic Material. As a result of this work, models of learning paths were identified and digital multimedia teaching material was created on the analysis of educational data, the latter being made available on a website with written and video tutorials. Additionally, a teacher training course was carried out in which the course participants, based on the analysis of profiles of learning paths prepared with the materials available on the website, suggested interventions to help the development and learning of students. As a contribution to society, the models of learning paths and teaching materials, which are products of this work, can support the training and qualification of more teachers, so that more students can be assisted throughout their learning processes.