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Educational technologies, such as teacher dashboards, are being developed to support teachers’ instruction and students’ learning. Specifically, dashboards support teachers in providing the just-in-time instruction needed by students in complex contexts such as science inquiry. In this study, we used the Inq-Blotter teacher-alerting dashboard to investigate whether teacher support elicited by the technology influenced students’ inquiry performance in a science intelligent tutoring system, Inq-ITS. Results indicated that students’ inquiry improved after receiving teachers’ help, elicited by the Inq-Blotter alerts. This inquiry improvement was significantly greater than for matched students who did not receive help from the teacher in response to alerts. Epistemic network analyses were then used to investigate the patterns in the discursive supports provided to students by teachers. These analyses revealed significant differences in the types of support that fostered (versus did not foster) student improvement; differences across teachers were also found. Overall, this study used innovative tools and analyses to understand how teachers use this technological genre of alerting dashboards to dynamically support students in science inquiry. 

When implementing the Next Generation Science Standards, it is challenging for teachers to support students on inquiry practices; technological tools are a good solution to help inform teachers’ pedagogical practices. In this study, we developed actionable, evidence-based Teacher Inquiry Practice Supports (TIPS) that are presented as fine-grained real-time alerts within the teacher dashboard Inq-Blotter. These TIPS aid teachers in providing detailed support to students in order to scaffold students’ specific inquiry difficulties on the practices. 

When implementing the Next Generation Science Standards, it is challenging for teachers to support students on inquiry practices; technological tools are a good solution to help inform teachers’ pedagogical practices. In this study, we developed actionable, evidence-based Teacher Inquiry Practice Supports (TIPS) that are presented as fine-grained real-time alerts within the teacher dashboard Inq-Blotter. These TIPS aid teachers in providing detailed support to students in order to scaffold students’ specific inquiry difficulties on the practices.