Thrive 36 - Can Learning Analytics replace EOY exam?

With the removal of MYE, one of the questions raised was - what do we not know about a student's progress without MYE? 

If learning analytics could personalised feedback at scale for improvement, whether or not, students act on the suggestive feedback, will we be able to predict if with high accuracy if students could progress to the next level? Or who is the best in the cohort to be recognised? How will that data be presented to be ethically sound?

Now that we only have WAs, if we have data on students' work progress throughout the year, the way they follow up on feedback, work on each assignment (online), do their homework, interact in class and online, and all these can be feedback to the students in term of their quality of content, learning strategies (did the student do it last minute and if so what is the quality of work), did they students think deeply when they post comments online) and so on. 

If LA could ascertain one competence and depositions, why do we still need EOY exam that involved contextualised testing? 

LA as feedback has to be seen from the analogy of a weight loss programme. We wanted to have a good and healthy lifestyle and thus lose weight. That is, we want students to be passionate and curious about their learning and thus do well academically. What lifestyle of learning do we want our students to have? We do not want the data to be constant stress to our students, just like one will starve himself to lose weight.  

 


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