TY - JOUR
T1 - The effect of providing learning analytics on student behaviour and performance in programming
T2 - a randomised controlled experiment
AU - Hellings, Jan
AU - Haelermans, Carla
PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - We use a randomised experiment to study the effect of offering half of 556 freshman students a learning analytics dashboard and a weekly email with a link to their dashboard, on student behaviour in the online environment and final exam performance. The dashboard shows their online progress in the learning management systems, their predicted chance of passing, their predicted grade and their online intermediate performance compared with the total cohort. The email with dashboard access, as well as dashboard use, has positive effects on student behaviour in the online environment, but no effects are found on student performance in the final exam of the programming course. However, we do find differential effects by specialisation and student characteristics.
AB - We use a randomised experiment to study the effect of offering half of 556 freshman students a learning analytics dashboard and a weekly email with a link to their dashboard, on student behaviour in the online environment and final exam performance. The dashboard shows their online progress in the learning management systems, their predicted chance of passing, their predicted grade and their online intermediate performance compared with the total cohort. The email with dashboard access, as well as dashboard use, has positive effects on student behaviour in the online environment, but no effects are found on student performance in the final exam of the programming course. However, we do find differential effects by specialisation and student characteristics.
KW - Higher education
KW - Learning analytics dashboard
KW - Randomised controlled experiment
KW - Student behaviour
KW - Student performance
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85086320764&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/s10734-020-00560-z
DO - 10.1007/s10734-020-00560-z
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85086320764
JO - Higher Education
JF - Higher Education
SN - 0018-1560
ER -