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Rotelli, Daniela; Monreale, Anna – Journal of Learning Analytics, 2023
The increased adoption of online learning environments has resulted in the availability of vast amounts of educational log data, which raises questions that could be answered by a thorough and accurate examination of students' online learning behaviours. Event logs describe something that occurred on a platform and provide multiple dimensions that…
Descriptors: Learning Analytics, Learning Management Systems, Time on Task, Student Behavior
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Dooley, Laura; Makasis, Nikolas – Education Sciences, 2020
The flipped classroom has been increasingly employed as a pedagogical strategy in the higher education classroom. This approach commonly involves pre-class learning activities that are delivered online through learning management systems that collect learning analytics data on student access patterns. This study sought to utilize learning…
Descriptors: Student Behavior, Flipped Classroom, Learning Analytics, Data Interpretation
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Moreno-Estevaa, Enrique Garcia; White, Sonia L. J.; Wood, Joanne M.; Black, Alex A. – Frontline Learning Research, 2018
In this research, we aimed to investigate the visual-cognitive behaviours of a sample of 106 children in Year 3 (8.8 ± 0.3 years) while completing a mathematics bar-graph task. Eye movements were recorded while children completed the task and the patterns of eye movements were explored using machine learning approaches. Two different techniques of…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Man Machine Systems, Mathematics Education, Eye Movements
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Addis, Elizabeth A.; Powell-Coffman, Jo Anne – Journal of College Science Teaching, 2018
The Association of American Colleges and Universities ranks multiple process of science (POS) skills among the top-10 skills employers seek in college graduates. As part of an effort to explore and align the emphasis on POS skills in our science departments, we sought three things: (a) to determine if faculty and students felt enough time was…
Descriptors: College Students, College Science, Science Process Skills, Research Universities
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Verkade, Heather – Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2015
Although practical laboratory activities are often considered the linchpin of science education, asking students to produce many large practical reports can be problematic. Practical reports require diverse skills, and therefore do not focus the students' attention on any one skill where specific skills need to be enhanced. They are also…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Skill Development, College Seniors, Research Reports
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Round, Jennifer E.; Campbell, A. Malcolm – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2013
The ability to interpret experimental data is essential to understanding and participating in the process of scientific discovery. Reading primary research articles can be a frustrating experience for undergraduate biology students because they have very little experience interpreting data. To enhance their data interpretation skills, students…
Descriptors: Biology, Undergraduate Students, Reading Assignments, Data Interpretation
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Martineau, Joseph A.; Wyse, Adam E. – Measurement: Interdisciplinary Research and Perspectives, 2015
This article is a commentary of a paper by Derek C. Briggs and Frederick A. Peck, "Using Learning Progressions to Design Vertical Scales That Support Coherent Inferences about Student Growth," which describes an elegant potential framework for at least beginning to address three priorities in large-scale assessment that have not been…
Descriptors: Performance Factors, Barriers, Program Implementation, Group Testing
Hart, Ray; Casserly, Michael; Uzzell, Renata; Palacios, Moses; Corcoran, Amanda; Spurgeon, Liz – Council of the Great City Schools, 2015
There has been little data collected on how much testing actually goes on in America's schools and how the results are used. So in the Spring of 2014, the Council staff developed and launched a survey of assessment practices. This report presents the findings from that survey and subsequent Council analysis and review of the data. It also offers…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Student Evaluation, Testing Programs, Testing
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Johnson, Todd E. – Education, 2007
The purpose of this study was to understand the relationship of student entry data to current English language learning status. District-level data was obtained for 1,942 K-5 native Spanish-speaking elementary-level students administered the oral Spanish and English Language Assessment Scale (Pre-LAS). Canonical correlation analysis was used to…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Multivariate Analysis, Correlation, Spanish Speaking