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Types of Data Analytics |
Credit: LDschool (left) , eSchool News (top right), The Educator Australia (bottom right)
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In a K-12 educational setting, a plethora of data such as student demographics, assessment results, behavior reports, skills-based report, and many others, can be captured to drive improvements in teaching and learning. However, to improve student outcomes, teachers need to know what areas of knowledge and understanding need an intervention. It is only then that teachers can effectively define the actions to take for improvement. This means that the data collected must be useful to inform instruction. For example, students' engagement in an online class can be measured by their participation in an online discussion forum. The following activity aims to show that effective learning analytics approaches identify what is measured to define what actions would improve the measurement.
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Activity #2Click on the image to access the activity.
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