Auto-sending messages in an intelligent orchestration system: A pilot study

Abstract

FACT (Formative Assessment with Computational Technology) is an intelligent orchestration system. That is, because it helps the teacher manage the workflow of a complicated set of activities in the classroom, it is an orchestration system. Because it conducts tasks-specific and domain-specific analyses of the students’ mathematical products and their group interactions, it is more intelligent than other orchestration systems. From analyzing videos of our iterative development trials, we realized that too many students needed help simultaneously, but the teacher could only visit one group at a time. Thus, we modified FACT to send a few messages to the students directly instead of sending all its advice to the teacher. This paper reports a successful pilot test of auto-sending.