@inproceedings{aba78dcb3079419c99849f21d3a79f8f,
title = "Data Comics: Using Narratives to Engage Students in Data Reasoning",
abstract = "Comics are a familiar art form that has been underexplored as a tool for data-driven storytelling in K12 classrooms. Making data comics provide an opportunity for students to contextualize data within a visual style and narrative structure. This paper focuses on the second-year implementation of an interdisciplinary curriculum in seventh grade classrooms with one art and one math teacher. Students compared sample data from a national survey conducted by Pew Research Center, a nonpartisan US-based think tank, and data taken from their own survey on friendship perceptions and experiences. Students created comics based on those data using Pixton, a digital comic-making tool. Our study asks: How do students' use narratives to demonstrate different kinds of data reasoning? Thematic analysis of 47 data comics revealed the ways students constructed narratives, showcasing how the comic-making process cultivated students' reasoning around data and their informal inference-making skills.",
author = "Marian Tes and Kayla DesPortes and Ralph Vacca and Megan Silander and Anna Amato and Camillia Matuk and Woods, {Peter J.}",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} ISLS.; 17th International Conference of the Learning Sciences, ICLS 2023 ; Conference date: 10-06-2023 Through 15-06-2023",
year = "2023",
language = "English (US)",
series = "Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning Conference, CSCL",
publisher = "International Society of the Learning Sciences (ISLS)",
pages = "1502--1505",
editor = "Paulo Blikstein and {Van Aalst}, Jan and Rita Kizito and Karen Brennan",
booktitle = "ISLS Annual Meeting 2023",
}