OARC’s Mobile Research team built a custom mobile app called ‘Spiral Notebook’ for a project in collaboration with Dr. Felipe Martinez, who is faculty in the UCLA School of Education and Information Studies. Dr. Martinez’s research focuses on the assessment and improvement of didactic workflows in science education.
The Spiral Notebook app implements a custom multi-modal research data collection workflow, community engagement features such as commenting and reactions, and state of the art field-ready mobile software architecture to support his research program on professional development in K-12 teachers. The app enables groups of K-12 STEM teachers to collect, annotate, review, share, and collaborate around complex evidence of instruction in STEM classrooms to support professional learning and development.
The research project, funded by the NSF and including co-PI Dr. Matt Kloser of Notre Dame, started in 2022 and is ongoing today. The project hopes to expand to more general use across the country in the coming years.
