Developing a Student Feedback System using a Design-Based Research Approach

We have developed a web-based feedback system that students can use to report difficult, easy, engaging, and boring sections of a lecture in real-time. Such feedback can identify potentially problematic lecture content, track cognitive-affective dynamics in a classroom, and assist instructors in retrospective self-evaluation. We use a mixed-method approach within a design-based research (DBR) framework. In this paper, we discuss initial development and implementation of the feedback system, which constitutes the first cycle of DBR in the project. We discuss potential use-cases of such data and follow the DBR framework to identify strengths and weaknesses in the current prototype and its implementation. Based on such an analysis we come up with a list of modifications for the next cycle of DBR.