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Action Analytics: Measuring and Improving Performance That Matters in Higher Education ... - 0 views

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  • hansdezwart on 09 Feb 11
     
    For the past several years, EDUCAUSE publications have described the emergence of two complementary forces: (1) the growth of "academic analytics" in higher education and the knowledge services needed to support seamless sharing and leveraging of contextualized data/information; and (2) the escalating accountability demands that are driving performance measurement and improvement initiatives. These forces converged in the July/August 2007 issue of EDUCAUSE Review, which showcased their potentially transformative impacts on higher education
Tony Searl

U. of Texas Adopts Plan to Publish Performance Data on Professors and Campuses - Facult... - 2 views

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  • help ensure that taxpayers are getting their money's worth
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      Tony Searl on 29 Aug 11
       
      as I attempted to raise during LAK11, intent is critical. If LAK is primarily accountability driven, then more complex outcomes available IF questioning of data is deeper, may be missed (or ignored/buried/not sought)
  • Among other things, the system will report such factors as research expenditures, publications, teaching evaluations, and external support.
    • Tony Searl
      Tony Searl on 29 Aug 11
       
      myschool is already developing into such a site. Insightful LAK, with holistic intention, not narow agendas, is preferable. Metrics, data, inclusions and questions need bipartisan support IF education is to be apolitical.
  • That was a swipe at the Texas Public Policy Foundation, a conservative think tank supported by Gov. Rick Perry that has advocated a controversial blueprint known as the "Seven Solutions" to higher education
    • Tony Searl
      Tony Searl on 29 Aug 11
       
      Perry, potential president? Fascinating 2012 election
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  • It also calls for a review system in which outside experts analyze the performance of individual colleges within the system's universities.
    • Tony Searl
      Tony Searl on 29 Aug 11
       
      intent, questions asked, data deemed inclusive, all crucial for LAK outcomes. Enormous potential for misrepresentations exist IF analytics is poorly conceived and managed.
  • Mr. Powell said the database would allow students, parents, legislators, and others to easily examine detailed data about how different campuses and departments performed.
    • Tony Searl
      Tony Searl on 29 Aug 11
       
      exact definition of intent of our 2 year old myschool data
  • Tony Searl on 29 Aug 11
     
    The plan unveiled on Thursday designates money to create a "dashboard"-an interactive, online database-to give students, parents, and legislators access to detailed measures of departments' and colleges' productivity and efficiency. Data on individual professors will probably also be included, although Dr. Cigarroa stressed that each campus would be able to develop its own system of metrics and the details have not yet been worked out
Dianne Rees

Nuts and Bolts: How to Evaluate e-Learning by Jane Bozarth : Learning Solutions Magazine - 3 views

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shared by Dianne Rees on 16 Jan 11 - No Cached
  • The linearity and causality implied within the taxonomy (for instance, the assumption that passing a test at Level 2 will result in improved job performance at Level 3) masks the reality of transferring training into measurable results. Many factors enable — or hinder — the transfer of training to on-the-job behavior change, including support from supervisors, rewards for improved performance, culture of the work unit, issues with procedures and paperwork, and political concerns
  • Robert Brinkerhoff takes a systems view of evaluation of training, believing it should focus on sustained performance rather than attempting to isolate the training effort:
  • learn best from the outliers
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  • The method asks evaluators to: Identify individuals or teams that have been most successful in using some new capability or method provided through the training; Document the nature of the success; and Compare to instances of nonsuccess.
  • Stufflebeam
  • training as part of a system
  • a means of formative as well as summative evaluation.
  • Dianne Rees on 16 Jan 11
     
    Evaluating training: some alternatives to the Kirkpatrick method
hansdezwart

elearnspace › What are Learning Analytics? - 0 views

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  • hansdezwart on 23 Jan 11
     
    Learning analytics is the use of intelligent data, learner-produced data, and analysis models to discover information and social connections, and to predict and advise on learning. EDUCAUSE's Next Generation learning initiative offers a slightly different definition "the use of data and models to predict student progress and performance, and the ability to act on that information". Their definition is cleaner than the one I offer, but, as I'll detail below, is intended to work within the existing educational system, rather than to modify it. I'm interested in how learning analytics can restructure the process of teaching, learning, and administration.
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