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Teacher-centric educational recommender systems in K12 practice: Usage and evaluation.

Sohum M Bhatt¹, Katrien Verbert², Wim Van Den Noortgate¹

¹Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences and imec research group itec, KU Leuven, Belgium.

|February 5, 2025

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Teachers use recommender systems to create new lessons, prioritizing accuracy and utility. These systems simplify personalized learning but don't yet improve its quality, suggesting a focus on these aspects for future development.

Area of Science:

Educational Technology
Human-Computer Interaction

Background:

Personalized learning is challenging for teachers due to workload.
Recommender systems offer potential solutions for personalizing education.
Limited research exists on teacher adoption and evaluation of educational recommender systems.

Purpose of the Study:

Investigate the practical application of a teacher-centric educational recommender system.
Conduct a user-centric evaluation of the system's utility and teacher perceptions.
Understand teacher beliefs regarding recommender systems for personalized learning.

Main Methods:

Qualitative and quantitative user-centric evaluation of an educational recommender system.
Analysis of teacher usage patterns (lesson creation vs. adaptation).

Keywords:

Data science applications in education Elementary education Improving classroom teaching Secondary education

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Assessment of teacher-reported importance of recommendation attributes (accuracy, utility, diversity, serendipity).

Main Results:

Teachers primarily used the system to create new lessons, not adapt existing ones.
Accuracy and utility were deemed most important by teachers for evaluating recommendations.
Diversity and serendipity were considered less critical.
Teachers viewed recommender systems as a facilitator for personalized learning, but current impact on learning quality was not significant.

Conclusions:

Future teacher-centric recommender system evaluations should prioritize accuracy and utility over diversity and serendipity.
Recommender systems can simplify personalized learning by enabling teachers to focus on student needs.
Further development is needed to enhance the impact of recommender systems on the quality of personalized learning.