Supporting Teachers’ Understanding of Young Learners’ EFL Learning through a Digital Dashboard : Design and Evaluation of a Teacher-facing Dashboard

Sammanfattning: The benefits of being able to receive individualized guidance to support learning have been shown in various studies. However, most teachers are too pressured by time and budget constraints to be able to offer this. Thus, personalized learning has become a luxury that most teachers cannot provide. However, with the rapid development of digital technologies, new opportunities are arising within this field. Scalability challenges are being overcome when digital learning platforms now can collect data and use it to generate insights concerning each student’s individual progress and challenges for the teacher to access through a dashboard. The aim of this case study is to contribute to the formation of a best practice for the design of teacher-facing dashboards (TFD) to improve learning outcomes. A user-centric approach was selected to identify obstacles and areas of improvement. These were identified by conducting interviews and think-alouds to evaluate an existing dashboard designed by the language platform Astrid Education. The results and insights are demonstrated through a redesign suggestion of the dashboard along with the teacher's evaluation of it.