RUME 28
2026
Alexandria, Virginia
Student Agency in the Collaborative Development of Novel Interactive Textbook Questions in Calculus and Linear Algebra
Page: 1059
In this preliminary report, we present results of examining the collaborative process used by teams of students, teachers, authors, and researchers to develop novel interactive questions for free, open calculus and linear algebra textbooks. Of concern is student agency as both a temporally-based social process and an ecological phenomenon as collaborators understand and construct the role of student. Discursive practices of the collaborators contributed to student positioning. In some cases, this resulted in an absence of student voice in the development of content, while in others, student agency yielded meaningful pedagogical changes in the development of questions.