Data Analytics Applications in Education

ISBN-13: 9781498769273 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 265 str.

Jan Vanthienen; Kristoff De Witte

Opis

The abundance of data and the rise of new quantitative and statistical techniques have led to a promising area: data analytics. In education and learning, big data analytics is being used to enhance the learning process, to evaluate efficiency, to improve feedback, and to enrich the learning experience. Integrating data from different institutions allows data-driven decision making and evaluation. This book shows a number of innovative applications of data analytics in primary, secondary, and tertiary education.

Spis treści

Introduction: Big Data Analytics in a Learning Environment. I. Data Analytics to Improve the Learning Process. Improved Student Feedback with Process and Data Analytics. Toward Data for Development: A Model on Learning Communities as a Platform for Growing Data Use. The Impact of Fraudulent Behavior on the Usefulness of Learning Analytics Applications: The Case of Question and Answer Sharing with Medium-Stakes Online Quizzing in Higher Education. II. Data Analytics to Measure Performance. Disentangling Faculty Efficiency from Students’ Effort. Using Data Analytics to Benchmark Schools: The Case of Portugal. The Use of Educational Data Mining Procedures to Assess Students’ Performance in a Bayesian Framework. Using Statistical Analytics to Study School Performance through Administrative Datasets. III. Policy Relevance and the Challenges Ahead. The Governance of Big Data in Higher Education. Evidence-Based Education and Its Implications for Research and Data Analytics with an Application to the Overeducation Literature.