Review of “Uncharted: Big Data as a Lens on Human Culture”
As pressures to scale up education and assessment mount higher and higher, attention has turned towards techniques from the field of big data analytics to provide the needed boon. At first blush, Aiden...
View ArticleInsight and Action Analytics: Three Case Studies to Consider
Civitas Learning was conceived as a community of practice, bringing together forward-thinking leaders from diverse higher education institutions to leverage insight and action analytics in their...
View ArticleHow Predictive Analytics and Choice Architecture Can Improve Student Success
This article explores the challenges that students face in navigating the curricular structure of post–secondary degree programs, and how predictive analytics and choice architecture can play a role....
View ArticleSocial Learning Analytics: Navigating the Changing Settings of Higher Education
Current trends and challenges in higher education (HE) require a reorientation towards openness, technology use and active student participation. In this article we will introduce Social Learning...
View ArticleAssessment of Robust Learning with Educational Data Mining
Many university leaders and faculty have the goal of promoting learning that connects across domains and prepares students with skills for their whole lives. However, as assessment emerges in higher...
View ArticleTechnology for Mining the Big Data of MOOCs
Because MOOCs bring big data to the forefront, they confront learning science with technology challenges. We describe an agenda for developing technology that enables MOOC analytics. Such an agenda...
View ArticleEmbracing Big Data in Complex Educational Systems: The Learning Analytics...
In the new era of big educational data, learning analytics (LA) offer the possibility of implementing real–time assessment and feedback systems and processes at scale that are focused on improvement of...
View ArticleThe Future of Data–Enriched Assessment
The article addresses the question of how the assessment process with large–scale data derived from online learning environments will be different from the assessment process without it. Following an...
View ArticleFrom the Editor – Flatlands & Frontiers
“Escaping this flatland is the essential task of envisioning information – for all the interesting worlds (physical, biological, imaginary, human) that we seek to understand are inevitably and happily...
View ArticleWinter 2014 Issue Available
The pieces in this Special Issue on Big Data & Learning Analytics have been arranged to provide a natural progression on the topic for the reader. The volume opens with an article by Candace Thille...
View ArticleReview of “Aspiring Adults Adrift”
In Aspiring Adults Adrift: Tentative Transitions of College Graduates (2014), a follow-up to Academically Adrift: Limited Learning on College Campuses (2011), Richard Arum and Josipa Roksa take a close...
View ArticleReview of “Assessment Essentials”
The newly updated edition of Assessment Essentials: Planning, Implementing, and Improving Assessment in Higher Education, the classic text by Trudy Banta and Catherine Palomba, made it to the top of a...
View ArticleTransfer Student Success: Educationally Purposeful Activities Predictive of...
Researchers evaluated the effects of Educationally Purposeful Activities (EPAs) on transfer and nontransfer students’ cumulative GPAs. Hierarchical, linear, and multiple regression models yielded seven...
View ArticleEffects of Motivational Prompts on Motivation, Effort, and Performance on a...
Increased demands for accountability have placed an emphasis on assessment of student learning outcomes. At the post-secondary level, many of the assessments are considered low-stakes, as student...
View ArticleAssessing the Work: An Exploration of Assessment in the Musical Theatre Arts
The increased pressure in higher education to demonstrate evidence of student learning is prompting all sectors to develop clear assessment methods. This national conversation has also sparked the...
View ArticleTo Learn More about Learning: The Value-Added Role of Qualitative Approaches...
As we face increasing accountability in higher education, how we measure student learning should exceed the calls for an account of learning that places students at the center. Qualitative approaches...
View ArticleNew Members of Editorial Staff and Review Board
RPA welcomes three new members to the Editorial Staff and Review Board, each serving a three year term ending November 2017. We thank these persons in advance for their service to the broader...
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