The effect of providing learning analytics on student behaviour and performance in programming: a randomised controlled experiment

Jan Hellings; Carla Haelermans

doi:10.1007/s10734-020-00560-z

The effect of providing learning analytics on student behaviour and performance in programming: a randomised controlled experiment

Jan Hellings, Carla Haelermans

Faculty of Digital Media and Creative Industries (FDMCI)

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Academic › peer-review

Abstract

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.

Original language	English
Journal	Higher Education
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s10734-020-00560-z
Publication status	Accepted/In press - 2020

Access to Document

10.1007/s10734-020-00560-z

Cite this

@article{d5ee6becc7664c23b4a15cb6ff2347cc,

title = "The effect of providing learning analytics on student behaviour and performance in programming: a randomised controlled experiment",

abstract = "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.",

keywords = "Higher education, Learning analytics dashboard, Randomised controlled experiment, Student behaviour, Student performance",

author = "Jan Hellings and Carla Haelermans",

year = "2020",

doi = "10.1007/s10734-020-00560-z",

language = "English",

journal = "Higher Education",

issn = "0018-1560",

publisher = "Springer Netherlands",

}

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 -

The effect of providing learning analytics on student behaviour and performance in programming: a randomised controlled experiment

Abstract

Access to Document

Other files and links

Fingerprint

Cite this