Students love to hear good news about how well
they're doing in their courses or how their performance — good or bad — compares
to other students in the class, according to a research project undertaken by
Blackboard's analytics and research team. Students also
demonstrated a clear preference for notifications comparing them relative to
other students over notifications showing changes in their achievement over
time. This is a key advantage of these type of notifications and learning
analytics dashboards. Student responses confirm student interest in this type
of feature. Further, students appear to be most interested in notifications
that recognize positive achievement compared to those that identify areas for
improvement, counter to the intent of most notifications, which is to identify
at-risk students and help motivate changes in behavior. One
implication from this study is that by knowing that students with declining grades are
likely to continue the pattern, a sudden grade decrease early in a semester is
an important signal for an early outreach opportunity for instructors and
academic advisors.
Whitmer, J., Nasiatka, D., & Harfield,
T. (2017). Blackboard data science research brief student interest
& patterns in learning analytics notifications. Washington, DC: Blackboard.
http://www.blackboard.com/resources/pdf/report_ultratriggers.pdf
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