https://padlet.com/bfede/iefqxoft1zoe en-us 2019-05-28 23:38:23 UTC 2025-10-23 12:50:26 UTC hello@padlet.com bfede https://padlet.com/bfede/iefqxoft1zoe/wish/364184170 Analytics drive decision-making.  Without data, it is difficult to support justifications for instructional decisions.  With the emergence of the "learning Sciences", data is becoming more and more part of the educational process.

Nowhere in instructional Design are analytics more prevalent than in a good needs assessment. In fact needs are often defined in terms of comparisons to standardized outcomes. ]]> 2019-05-28 23:42:25 UTC https://padlet.com/bfede/iefqxoft1zoe/wish/364184170 bfede https://padlet.com/bfede/iefqxoft1zoe/wish/364184193 Data sources are abundant, but educators need to vet sources of data as well as the tools used to collect data. Data has enormous potential to help teachers, administrators, and parent make informed decisions about curricular and instructional decisions. But they can also be misused to make erroneous, misleading statements ... Caveat emtor... ]]> 2019-05-28 23:42:33 UTC https://padlet.com/bfede/iefqxoft1zoe/wish/364184193 bfede https://padlet.com/bfede/iefqxoft1zoe/wish/364184351 Analytics might be collected to evaluate the effectiveness of a particular instructional technique, intervention, or teaching program.  Data from state and district level exams can often be used in this way.

Advantages: Often analytics  from sources like this can be used to measure gaps in student learning trajectories within a teaching program.

Disadvantages: Grain size. These analytics can look at trends in data across larger sample sizes, however results are often inappropriately used to look at individual students or small sub-populations of students where samples are not representative. ]]> 2019-05-28 23:43:53 UTC https://padlet.com/bfede/iefqxoft1zoe/wish/364184351 bfede https://padlet.com/bfede/iefqxoft1zoe/wish/364184362 Analytics in education is not a new trend.  Test scores from metrics of student achievement have been used for years to predict student success in future contexts.  Perhaps the most famous is the SAT.  SATs have traditionally been used by higer education institutions to predict student success at their institutions.

Advantages:  Allows the college to process large populations of applicants and make decisions on admittance based on what similar successful students scored on a standardized tests.

Disadvantages: Standardized tests give a look at overall trends but may not give an accurate picture of an individual student.


]]> 2019-05-28 23:43:56 UTC https://padlet.com/bfede/iefqxoft1zoe/wish/364184362 bfede https://padlet.com/bfede/iefqxoft1zoe/wish/364184370 Teaching in a classroom might be described much like making decisions on a baseball field.

A Learning Analytic is data collected by stakeholders in the educational process to gain insignt into student learning and predict student success in various settings.

]]> 2019-05-28 23:43:59 UTC https://padlet.com/bfede/iefqxoft1zoe/wish/364184370 bfede https://padlet.com/bfede/iefqxoft1zoe/wish/364184383 Just about every industry from the business world to Major League Sports have transitioned from managing by "feel" or instinct to using metrics to drive decisions. Analytics is a general term for using data collected using a variety of specialized tools to assist in making decisions. ]]> 2019-05-28 23:44:04 UTC https://padlet.com/bfede/iefqxoft1zoe/wish/364184383