(SpringerBriefs in Business Process Management) Learning Analytics Cookbook_ How to Support Learning Processes Through Data Analytics and Visualizatio

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Fig. 6.27 Performance per student view
As Fig. 6.27 shows, students vary in terms of which tests they complete and in
their performance on each test. Some students completed all tests with flying colors,
while others took only one or two tests and had low scores.
By flipping through this view’s pages for all students, we know that 4 students out
of 11 did not take all tests and that. Out of that ten, three students took only two tests.
We can also focus on details about each exam or student separately. For example,
five students did not perform Self Test: Formal Languages, and scored below 50%
on this test, and student 27,577 seems to overall struggle the most with the tests.
What Is the Overall Performance Distribution of the Class’s Test Scores?
As teachers, we would like to motivate students who are not performing well and to
mitigate any dropouts. The LEMO2 CourseExplorer provides a perspective of the
class’s overall performance in each quiz or test, as shown in Fig. 6.28.
Seventy-six students are enrolled in the course, but only between thirty and thirtythree
students took the tests. Among four tests that are administered, Self Test:
Formal Languages and Self Test: Algorithms had the highest failure rate, and Self
Test: Coding had the lowest failure rate.
In the “Performance Distribution per Test” view, we can see that Self Test:
Coding is well distributed, with around 15% of students scoring 90–100%, 33%
scoring 80–89%, and 21% scoring 70–79%. Self Test: Algorithms and Self Test:
Formal Languages must be considered difficult since students attempted them but
could not complete them successfully.
Such investigations using LEMO2 CourseExplorer enables teachers to dig into
students’ progress so they can support their students.