Creating Process Indicators from Log Data to analyze Primary School Students’ Multiple Text Comprehension

Abstract

In today’s world learning often takes place on the Internet, even in primary education (Florit et al., 2020; Mason, 2018). The aim of this study is to create indicators from log data to investigate the complex process of multiple text comprehension. Multiple text comprehension consists of the following phases: reading the assignment, searching for relevant pages, reading the pages, organizing the relevant text segments, and writing a synthesis based on multiple texts. A closed web environment, where students practice all multiple text comprehension skills, was designed for this study. A software application was also created to collect log data in this project. Some basic process indicators like time on task and frequencies concerning how often the phases were visited (Greiff et al., 2016) were used to make students’ multiple text comprehension processes visible. The preliminary results indicate that primary school students’ processes vary greatly and they used versatile methods to perform the task.