IVT-T

Interactive Virtual Training for Teachers

Interactive Virtual Training for Teachers helps early career teachers practice classroom management with disruptive virtual students in a safe simulated environment. The project was created to complement traditional classroom-management instruction with opportunities for applied rehearsal.

One of IVT-T’s virtual classrooms.

The IVT-T work includes design principles and implementation constraints for VR teacher-training systems, along with evaluations of usability, instructional design quality, teacher use, and classroom management outcomes.

Research Themes

• Classroom behavior management
• Teacher professional development
• Virtual students
• Simulation-based training
• Usability and instructional design
• Applied classroom practice

Publications

• Delamarre, A., Shernoff, E., Buche, C., Frazier, S., Gabbard, J., and Lisetti, C. (2021). The Interactive Virtual Training for Teachers (IVT-T) to Practice Classroom Behavior Management. International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 152(1), 102646.
• Shernoff, E. S., Frazier, S. L., Lisetti, C., Delamarre, A., Bibi, Z., and Gabbard, J. (2021). Supporting the Implementation of Evidence-Based Behavior Management Practices through Simulation: A Mixed Method Study. Journal of Educational Computing Research.
• Shernoff, E. S., Von Schalscha, K., Gabbard, J., Delamarre, A., Frazier, S., Buche, C., and Lisetti, C. (2020). Evaluating the Usability and Instructional Design Quality of Interactive Virtual Training for Teachers (IVT-T). Educational Technology Research and Development, 68, 3235-3262.
• Delamare, A., Buche, C., Shernoff, E., Frazier, S., and Lisetti, C. (2019). Lifecycles and Representational Fidelity Evaluation of a 3D Interactive Virtual Training for Teachers. In Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA 2019), Paris, France.
• Shernoff, E. S., Frazier, S. L., Lisetti, C., Buche, C., Lunn, S., Brown, C., Delamarre, A., Chou, T., Gabbard, J., and Morgan, E. (2018). Early Career Teacher Professional Development: Bridging Simulation Technology with Evidence-Based Behavior Management. Journal of Technology and Teacher Education, 26(2), 229-326.
• Delamarre, A., Buche, C., Polceanu, M., Lunn, S., Ruiz, G., Bolivar, S., Shernoff, E., and Lisetti, C. (2017). An Interactive Virtual Training (IVT) Simulation System for Early Career Teachers to Practice with Student Avatars in 3D Classrooms. In Proceedings of the 30th International FLAIRS Conference, Marco Island, Florida, USA.

Source: Cyberlearning and Training on Social Skills in Virtual Reality