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ERIC Number: EJ1485903
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2025
Pages: 20
Abstractor: As Provided
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-0159-6306
EISSN: EISSN-1469-3739
Available Date: 0000-00-00
Who Said Only Military Officers Can Deal with Uncertainty? On the Importance of Uncertainty in Edtech Data Visualisations
Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, v46 n3 p359-378 2025
AI-powered predictive systems have high margins of error. However, data visualisations of algorithmic systems in education and other social fields tend to visualise certainty, thus invisibilising the underlying approximations and uncertainties of the algorithmic systems and the social settings in which these systems operate. This paper draws on a critical speculative approach to first analyse data visualisations from predictive analytics platforms for education. It demonstrates that visualisations of uncertainty in education are rare. Second, the paper explores uncertainty visualisations in other fields (defence, climate change and healthcare). The paper concludes by reflecting on the role of data visualisations and un/certainty in shaping educational futures. It also identifies practical implications for the design of data visualisations in education.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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Author Affiliations: 1Re:Lab & Department of Educational Sciences, Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg, Oldenburg, Germany; 2BANDAS Center & Department of Sociology, University of Graz, Graz, Austria