research-article

Evaluating facilitated video instruction for primary schools in rural India

Authors:

Richard Anderson,

Natalie LinnellAuthors Info & Claims

ICTD '10: Proceedings of the 4th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development

Article No.: 41, Pages 1 - 10

https://doi.org/10.1145/2369220.2369259

Published: 13 December 2010 Publication History

Abstract

The educational system, especially in developing regions, remains one of the most challenging systems for intervention and implementation of change. The objectives of this paper are to present findings of the first year of an evaluation study of Digital StudyHall (DSH), a Facilitated Video Instruction system being used in rural primary schools in India. Our analysis shows that the DSH system supports classrooms by providing teachers with instructional resources, access to expertise, and in-practice professional development.

In the paper, we will a) describe the DSH system b) detail the evaluation design and c) present an analysis to demonstrate how some of the teachers using the DSH system change their teaching based on their experiences.

References

[1]

R. Heeks (2009). The ICT4D 2.0 Manifesto: Where Next for ICTs and International Development? {Online}. Paper (42). Available: http://www.sed.manchester.ac.uk/idpm/research/publications/wp/di

[2]

U. S. Pawar, J. Pal, R. Gupta, K. Toyama, "Multiple Mice for Retention Tasks in Disadvantaged Schools" in Proceedings of the CHI2007 ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, San Jose, California, April 28--May 3, 2007.

Digital Library

[3]

R. Patra, J. Pal, S. Nedevschi, M. Plauche, and U. S. Pawar, "Usage Models of Classroom Computing in Developing Regions," in Proceedings of the IEEE/ACM International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development, Bangalore, India. December 15--16, 2007.

[4]

G. A. Mills-Tettey, J. Mostow, M. B. Dias, T. Sweet, S. M. Belousov, M. F. Dias, and H. Gong, "Improving Child Literacy in Africa: Experiments with an Automated Reading Tutor," in Proceedings of the IEEE/ACM International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development, Doha, Qatar. April 15--19, 2009.

Digital Library

[5]

A. V. Banerjee, S. Cole, E. Duflo, and L. Linden, "Remedying education: Evidence from two randomized experiments in India!" {Online}. Available: http://www.povertyactionlab.org

[6]

M. Kam, A. Kumar, S. Jain, A. Mathur, and J. Canny, "Improving Literacy in Rural India: Cellphone Games in an After-School Program," in Proceedings of the IEEE/ACM International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development, Doha, Qatar. April 15--19, 2009.

Digital Library

[7]

J. F. Gibbons, W. R. Kincheloe, K. S. Down, "Tutored Videotape Instruction: A New Use of Electronics Media in Education," Science, New Series, Vol. 195, No. 4283, pp. 1139--1146, May 1977.

[8]

Digital StudyHall website. {Online}. Available: http://dsh.cs.washington.edu

[9]

R. J. Anderson, M. Dickey, and H. Perkins, "Experiences with Tutored Video Instruction for Introductory Computer Programming Courses", presented at the SIGCSE 2001.

Digital Library

[10]

U. Sahni. Needs assessment study of twenty-one schools in Uttar Praedesh. Report Commissioned by UNESCO and Confederation of Indian Industry: India, 2006.

[11]

U. Sahni, R. Gupta, G. Hull, P. Javid, T. Setia, K. Toyama, and R. Wang. "Using digital video in rural Indian schools: A study of teacher development and student achievement," presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, New York City, NY, March 2008.

[12]

Digital Green website. {Online}. Available: http://www.digitalgreen.org

[13]

R. Gandhi, R. Veeraraghavan, K. Toyama, V. Ramprasad. "Digital Green: Participatory Video for Agricultural Extension," presented at the IEEE/ACM International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development, Bangalore, India. December 15--16, 2007.

[14]

M. T. H. Chi, P. J. Feltovich, and R. Glaser, "Categorization and representation of physics problems by experts and novices," Cognitive Science, Vol. 5, pp. 121--152, 1981.

[15]

L. Darling-Hammond and J. Bransford. (Eds.) Preparing teachers for a changing world: What teachers should learn and be able to do. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2005.

[16]

K. A. Ericsson, "The influence of experience and deliberate practice on the development of superior expert performance" in The Cambridge Handbook of Expertise and Expert Performance. K. A. Ericsson, N. Charness, P. J. Feltovich, and R. R. Hoffman, Eds. Cambridge University Press, 2006.

[17]

S. B. Merriam. Case Study Research in Education: A Qualitative Approach. Jossey-Bass Inc. Publishers, San Francisco, CA, 1988.

[18]

J. Streeck and S. Mehus. "Microethnography: The Study of Practices" in Handbook of Language and Social Interaction. K. Fitch & R. Sanders. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, pp. 381--406, 2004.

[19]

B. Jordan and A. Henderson, "Interaction analysis: Foundations and practice," Journal of the Learning Sciences, Vol. 4(1), pp. 39--103, 1995.

[20]

C. Goodwin, "Professional Vision," American Anthropologist, New series. Vol. 96 (3), 606--633, 1994.

[21]

M. G. Sherin, "New perspectives on the role of video in teacher education" in Using video in teacher education: Advances in research on teaching, J. Brophy, Ed. Oxford: Elsevier Press, 2004.

[22]

W. E. Bijker and J. Law, (Eds.) Shaping Technology/Building Society. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press, 1997.

[23]

J. Lemke and N. Sabelli, "Complex systems and educational change: Towards a new research agenda," in Educational Philosophy and Theory, Vol. 40, No. 1, 2008.

[24]

C. B. Cazden. Classroom Discourse: The Language of Teaching and Learning. Portsmouth, Heinemann Educational Books, 1988.

[25]

J. W. Little, "Inside teacher community: representations of classroom practice," in Teachers College Record, Vol 105 (6), pp. 913--945, 2003.

[26]

K. Hammerness, L. Darling-Hammond, J. Bransford, D. Berliner, M. Cochran-Smith, M. McDonald, and K. Zeichner, "How teachers learn and develop," in Preparing teachers for a changing world: What teachers should learn and be able to do. L. Darling-Hammond and J. Bransford, Eds. San Francisco, Jossey-Bass, 2005.

[27]

D. Britzman. Practice makes practice: A critical study of learning to teach. State University of New York Press, 1991

[28]

J. Lantolf (Ed.) Sociocultural theory and second language learning. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2003.

[29]

J. D. Bransford and D. L. Schwartz, "It takes expertise to make expertise: Some thoughts about why and how and Reflections on the Themes in Chapters 15--18," in The Cambridge Handbook of Expertise and Expert Performance. K. A. Ericsson, N. Charness, P. J. Feltovich, and R. R. Hoffman, Eds. Cambridge University Press, 2006.

[30]

C. Heath and P. Luff, "Technology and social action," in Technology in action. C. Heath and P. Luff, Eds. Cambridge University Press, 2000.

[31]

B. Latour, B. Reassembling the social: an introduction to Actor-Network-Theory, Oxford University Press, 2005.

[32]

J. Goodlad. Educational renewal: Better teachers, better schools, San Francisco, Jossey-Bass, 1994.

[33]

W. Penuel, K. Frank, and A. Krause, "The distribution of resources and expertise and the implementation of schoolwide reform initiatives," in the Proceedings of the 7th International Conference of the Learning Sciences, Mahwah, N.J., pp. 522--28, 2006.

Digital Library

[34]

M. Lampert, "Knowing teaching: The intersection of research on teaching and qualitative research," in Harvard Educational Review, Vol. 70 (1), pp. 86--99, 2000.

[35]

R. Hall, "The organization and development of discursive practices for "having a theory"," in Discourse Processes, Vol. 27(2), pp. 187--218, 1999.

Cited By

Wani ASingh DSingh P(2022)“Hartal (Strike) Happens Here Everyday”: Understanding Impact of Disruption on Education in KashmirProceedings of the 2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems10.1145/3491102.3502126(1-17)Online publication date: 29-Apr-2022
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3491102.3502126
Varanasi RVashistha AKizilcec RDell N(2021)Investigating Technostress Among Teachers in Low-Income Indian SchoolsProceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction10.1145/34760815:CSCW2(1-29)Online publication date: 18-Oct-2021
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3476081
Yadav DMalik PDabas KSingh PKitamura YQuigley AIsbister KIgarashi TBjørn PDrucker S(2021)Illustrating the Gaps and Needs in the Training Support of Community Health Workers in IndiaProceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems10.1145/3411764.3445111(1-16)Online publication date: 6-May-2021
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3411764.3445111
Show More Cited By

Recommendations

Facilitated video instruction in low resource schools
ICTD '12: Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development

We describe a two-year study of the use of facilitated video instruction in government primary schools in North India. The study involved deploying Digital StudyHall (DSH) in eleven schools, and following the progress of participating teachers in ...
Rural Schools and Distance Education

In 2006, the author began research on current issues in rural education in which teachers recounted narratives of teaching. As deficits, they spoke of an inability to retain teachers, too little diversity in student programming, and lack of access to ...
Technology workshops by in-service teachers for pre-service teachers
SIGUCCS '01: Proceedings of the 29th annual ACM SIGUCCS conference on User services

This project was an initiative through university courses to have graduate in-service teachers, who have learned the use of technology for classroom instruction, offer workshops to undergraduate pre-service teachers. The goals of the project were two-...

Comments

Information & Contributors

Information

Published In

cover image ACM Other conferences

ICTD '10: Proceedings of the 4th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development

December 2010

479 pages

ISBN:9781450307871

DOI:10.1145/2369220

Conference Chair:
Tim Unwin,
General Chair:
Dorothea Kleine,
Program Chair:
Kentaro Toyama

Copyright © 2010 ACM.

Permission to make digital or hard copies of all or part of this work for personal or classroom use is granted without fee provided that copies are not made or distributed for profit or commercial advantage and that copies bear this notice and the full citation on the first page. Copyrights for components of this work owned by others than ACM must be honored. Abstracting with credit is permitted. To copy otherwise, or republish, to post on servers or to redistribute to lists, requires prior specific permission and/or a fee. Request permissions from [email protected]

Publisher

Association for Computing Machinery

New York, NY, United States

Publication History

Published: 13 December 2010

Permissions

Request permissions for this article.

Request Permissions

Check for updates

Author Tags

Qualifiers

Research-article

Conference

ICTD '10

ICTD '10: International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development

December 13 - 16, 2010

London, United Kingdom

Acceptance Rates

Overall Acceptance Rate 22 of 116 submissions, 19%

Contributors

Other Metrics

View Article Metrics

Bibliometrics & Citations

Bibliometrics

Article Metrics

7
Total Citations
View Citations
97
Total Downloads

Downloads (Last 12 months)0
Downloads (Last 6 weeks)0

Reflects downloads up to 17 Oct 2024

Other Metrics

View Author Metrics

Citations

Cited By

Wani ASingh DSingh P(2022)“Hartal (Strike) Happens Here Everyday”: Understanding Impact of Disruption on Education in KashmirProceedings of the 2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems10.1145/3491102.3502126(1-17)Online publication date: 29-Apr-2022
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3491102.3502126
Varanasi RVashistha AKizilcec RDell N(2021)Investigating Technostress Among Teachers in Low-Income Indian SchoolsProceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction10.1145/34760815:CSCW2(1-29)Online publication date: 18-Oct-2021
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3476081
Yadav DMalik PDabas KSingh PKitamura YQuigley AIsbister KIgarashi TBjørn PDrucker S(2021)Illustrating the Gaps and Needs in the Training Support of Community Health Workers in IndiaProceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems10.1145/3411764.3445111(1-16)Online publication date: 6-May-2021
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3411764.3445111
Varanasi RVashistha AParikh TDell NMaitland CCabezas M(2020)Challenges and Issues Integrating Smartphones into Teacher Support Programs in IndiaProceedings of the 2020 International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development10.1145/3392561.3394638(1-11)Online publication date: 17-Jun-2020
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3392561.3394638
Mutahi JBent OKinai AWeldemariam KSengupta BContractor D(2015)Seamless blended learning using the cognitive learning companionIBM Journal of Research and Development10.1147/JRD.2015.246359159:6(8:1-8:13)Online publication date: 1-Nov-2015
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1147/JRD.2015.2463591
Anderson RRobertson CNabi ESahni USetia TBest MZegura EDonner JGrinter BMarsden G(2012)Facilitated video instruction in low resource schoolsProceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development10.1145/2160673.2160675(2-12)Online publication date: 12-Mar-2012
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2160673.2160675
Agrawal RGollapudi SKannan AKenthapadi KSadagopan SRamamritham KKumar ARavindra MBertino EKumar R(2011)Identifying enrichment candidates in textbooksProceedings of the 20th international conference companion on World wide web10.1145/1963192.1963362(483-492)Online publication date: 28-Mar-2011
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1963192.1963362

View Options

Get Access

Login options

Check if you have access through your login credentials or your institution to get full access on this article.

Full Access

Get this Publication

View options

PDF

View or Download as a PDF file.

eReader

View online with eReader.

Media

Figures

Other

Tables

View Table of Contents