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Can Analyzing Clicks in Digital Systems Predict Which Students Are Struggling? It Depends.

October 14, 2022

Via: Ed Surge

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Now that so much college work is done digitally in learning management systems, many colleges are trying to analyze student data from those platforms to predict which students need help. But the practice is so new that it’s not yet clear how well the approach actually works.

Can big data from the LMS predict success in a class?

That’s the question tackled by a research paper published this week. And the mixed results surprised the scholars working on it.

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