Many things went on at Unseen University and, regrettably, teaching had to be one of them. The faculty had long ago confronted this fact and had perfected various devices for avoiding it. But this was perfectly all right because, to be fair, so had the students. «Interesting Times» by Terry Pratchett Looking at student’s test data and their score in the final exam, yeah, the assertion in the title holds true. And yeah, one thing I would really like to have is a good Learning Analytics system. Heck, any learning analytics system. Something that provides me with information about my students, which need more help, which exceed expectations and which fall behind, and why. It would be a great starting point for a “Dutch Uncle“, or just for any lecturer who gives less shit about “publish or perish” and more about an university lecturer’s integrity to teach well. I mean, looking at the data that I have available from the test and exam scores alone is eye opening. Just look at the scatterplot of the average score in the three tests (of a statistics course for media informatics students) and the score in the final exam. The tests were a [...]
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