Transcript G31 - Spatial Database Group

Colleges Mine Data to Tailor
Students' Experience
CSci4707 Presentation
Group 31
Educational data mining
• Students input answers in Learning Catalytics, software
designed by Brian Lukoff, their instructor. The screen shows a
map of everyone's answers, telling him who needs help.
Debate
• Proponents feel that making better use of data to inform
decisions
• skeptics worry that data-mining fosters a factory-line
approach to education: respond to instructor prompts rather
than express creativity
• How much should students be told about the behind-thescenes computer analysis that manipulates their educational
experiences? And how far should colleges go in shaping those
experiences based on data patterns?
Potential Applications-Better Choices?
• Austin Peay: software that recommends courses
• picking a major
• Admission: both students and college admissions
officers
Classroom 'Clickstreams'
• selects student discussion groups
• manage the pace of classes
• inviting students to submit open-ended responses
• encourage argument by pairing different opionion
Signals for Success: the future
• web courses: predicts with 70-percent accuracy
-reasons...
• can you change a student's trajectory?
-mixed...
Colleges will push for more and more info