The document discusses the IDeRBlog project which aims to help students improve their writing and spelling skills in German through an individualized online platform. It analyzes spelling mistakes made by students to select words for specific training exercises. The platform will be expanded to include additional exercises and more words based on ongoing analysis of student writing.

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Learning Analytics and Spelling
Acquisition in German –
the Path to Individualization in Learning
Markus Ebner, Konstanze Edtstadler and Martin Ebner

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Outline
• Introduction to IDeRBlog
• Background
• Goals of the project
• Individualization in Learning
• Extension of the Intelligent Dictionary
• A new Training Format
• Example: incorrect spelled words
• Walkthrough
• Outlook

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IDeRBlog & IDeRBlog ii
• Erasmus+ Project
• Partners in
• Belgium
• Germany
• Austria
• Combine development of writing skills and
the acquisition of orthographic competences
• Primarily for children, age 8 to 12

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Ideas and main points
• User friendly web-based platform
• Writing a text and get automatic feedback for
autonomous correction
• German orthography is known to be difficult to master.
• Help pupils who struggle with the acquisition of
German orthography
• Help them improve writing and spelling
• Provide qualitative analysis of orthographic
problems for teachers
• Provide exercises for training

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Goals of IDeRBlog ii
• further implementation in schools in order that more
students can benefit from the platform
• further individualization of the training material to
foster the orthographic competence
• extension of the number of words, which give a
specific feedback for correcting the mistakes

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Individualization –
Extension of the Intelligent Dictionary
Two strategies:
• (1) Analysing the texts between October 2016 and
October 2019
• Select most frequent correct and incorrect spelled
words
• Implementation into the intelligent dictionary by
deriving all their word forms and the mistakes
corresponding to the categories

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Individualization –
Extension of the Intelligent Dictionary
• (2) teachers
suggest words
that should be
implemented

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Individualization –
A new Training Format
Two approaches:
1. focus on problematic orthographic areas based
on the qualitative analysis of mistakes
2. train the specific words that are spelled
incorrectly

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Example: incorrect spelled words
• to train incorrectly spelled words, a specific didactic
approach is necessary
• it is not enough to just read the words or write them
several times.
• the words should be trained by applying the strategy
of conscious copying
• taking into account specific problematic positions in
a word
• Advantage of digital format: words that need to be
trained are chosen automatically by the system

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Example: walkthrough, step 1/3
First step: confrontation with the correctly spelled word
and think about possible problematic positions in the
word. Word „ähnlich“ – similar

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Example: walkthrough, step 2/3
Second step: write the word by heart without seeing
the correctly spelled word

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Example: walkthrough, step 3/3
Third step: feedback on the spelling attempt in
contrast to the correct spelling

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Possible modifications
• Number of presented words
• Up to five words can be presented at the same
time in the first step.
• Marking of problematic positions
• Can be deactivated
• Time limit
• Optionally definable
• Presentation of misspelled words
• Only show the correctly spelled word

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Outlook
• Currently we work on developing additional
training formats and on extending the intelligent
dictionary
• we are working on the extension of the intelligent
dictionary by analyzing the texts written so far
• Interesting topic: Corona crisis and IDeRBlog

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Educational Technology
• Slides available at:
• http://elearningblog.tugraz.at
• For further information about the project and
partners please visit:
• http://iderblog.eu
• http://elearning.tugraz.at
• https://www.tugraz.at/en/
oe/lehr-und-lerntechnologien/home/

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Acknowledgements
The IDeRBlog-project and the IDeRBlog-ii project are funded by the European
Commission in the framework of Erasmus+ (IDeRBlog: VG-SPS-SL-14-001616-
3, 2014-2017; IDeRBlog-ii: VG-IN-SL-18-36-047317, 2018-2021).
Project-team of IDeRBlog ii:
Germany: LPM Saarland (M. Gros = coordinator, N. Steinhauer); Gebundene
Ganztagsschule Dellengarten (S. Pfeifer, J. Gregori);
Austria: PH Steiermark (K. Edtstadler, E. Herunter); TU Graz (M. Ebner, M.
Ebner);
Belgium: Gemeindeschule Raeren (A. Huppertz, V. Kistemann);