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Record W2699398694 · doi:10.1145/3085585.3085586

How Can Learning Analytics Improve a Course?

2017· article· en· W2699398694 on OpenAlexaff
Bowen Hui, Shannon Farvolden

Bibliographic record

Venuenot available
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldComputer Science
TopicOnline Learning and Analytics
Canadian institutionsUniversity of British Columbia
Fundersnot available
KeywordsLearning analyticsComputer scienceAnalyticsData scienceSuiteCurriculumField (mathematics)Perspective (graphical)Domain (mathematical analysis)Quality (philosophy)Data analysisSubject-matter expertSubject matterSoftware analyticsCultural analyticsArtificial intelligenceSoftwareSemantic analyticsPsychologyData miningSoftware developmentPedagogy

Abstract

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Despite much excitement with learning analytics, there is still a lack of adoption in the classrooms. Possible reasons may include not having enough time to incorporate the use of analytics, not being familiar enough with specific techniques to readily apply them, or not knowing how data can help shape a curriculum or the classroom experience altogether. Learning analytics is a problem-driven research field, where the domain problem -- the people involved, the subject matter, and the learning environment -- drives the techniques and the solutions that are used. From this perspective, we propose a new framework with a suite of pedagogical questions that can be addressed using data to support decisions made about the curriculum or classroom structure. In addition, we present a case study with 69 participants in a CS1 course as a way to demonstrate how some of these questions are addressed. Our ultimate goal is to improve the quality of the students' learning experience using an evidence-based approach.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.019
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.086
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.023
Threshold uncertainty score0.099

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0190.086
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.001
Bibliometrics0.0030.002
Science and technology studies0.0030.002
Scholarly communication0.0150.019
Open science0.0030.005
Research integrity0.0030.004
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0230.008

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.017
GPT teacher head0.280
Teacher spread0.263 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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Published2017
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