Educational Testing Service and Mursion developed materials for a four-year project aimed at improving preservice elementary teachers' ability to orchestrate discussions. The project, GO Discuss, created performance-based tasks in a simulated classroom environment with fifth-grade student avatars. This specific data project includes training materials for simulation specialists, who control the avatars and responses during these discussions.
Use Cases
- Training simulation specialists based on guidelines for avatar control and response protocols.
- Developing standardized protocols for simulated classroom interactions based on the described discussion guidelines.
- Integrating formative assessment tasks into teacher preparation programs based on the project's validated approach.
- Studying the use of 'human-in-the-loop' simulation for teacher training based on the described specialist role.
Strengths
- Materials are part of a four-year research project developed and validated by Educational Testing Service and Mursion.
- Training covers specific guidelines for simulation specialists, including standard protocols for responding to teacher prompts.
- Files are provided in multiple formats (Word and PDF) to encourage adaptation and ensure correct rendering of content.
Limitations
- Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
Provenance
- Source
- GO Discuss Project, Educational Testing Service, Mursion
- Collection Method
- Developed, piloted, and validated as part of a research project.
- Freshness
- Last updated 2025-10-20 20:00:51; freshness should be verified.