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Student Understanding and Engagement in a Class Employing COMPS Computer Mediated Problem Solving: A First Look

COMPS is a web-delivered computer-mediated problem solving environment designed for supporting instructional activities in mathematics. It is being developed as a platform for student collaborative exploratory learning using problemspecific affordances. COMPS will support computer-aided monitoring and assessment of these dialogues. In this paper we report on the first use of COMPS in the classroom, supporting an exercise in quantitative problem-solving. We have identified a number of categories of dialogue contribution that will be useful for monitoring and assessing the dialogue and built classifiers for recognizing these contributions. Regarding the usability of the interface for problem-solving exercises, the primary unexpected behavior is an increase (compared to in-person exercises) in off-task activity and concomitant decrease in shared construction of the answer. Its first large deployment will be for Math 110, a quantitative literacy class at Valparaiso University.