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____________ ____________ answers the question: "Why did it happen? - ANSWER- Diagnostic analytics ____________ ____________ answers the question: "What happened? - ANSWER- Descriptive analytics ____________ ____________ answers the question: "What is likely to happen?" - ANSWER-Predictive analytics ____________ ____________ answers the question: "What should be done?" - ANSWER-Prescriptive analytics (a) A university publishes its graduation rate on its website. The graduation rate is 5% lower than it was last year. (b) Data indicate that the graduation rate dropped mainly because of the pandemic. (c) Data indicate that, due to the continuing strains and challenges from the pandemic, the university anticipates lower graduation rates for the next two years. (d) To support students toward their goal to graduation, data suggest students need more faculty support than they did prior to the pandemic so the university updates their faculty support policies. The statement labeled (d) is which type of data analytics? - ANSWER-Prescriptive (a) A university publishes its graduation rate on its website. The graduation rate is 5% lower than it was last year. (b) Data indicate that the graduation rate dropped mainly because of the pandemic. (c) Data indicate that, due to the continuing strains and challenges from the pandemic, the university anticipates lower graduation rates for the next two years. (d) To support students toward their goal to graduation, data suggest students need more faculty support than they did prior to the pandemic so the university updates their faculty support policies. The statement labeled (a) is which type of data analytics? - ANSWER-Descriptive (a) A university publishes its graduation rate on its website. The graduation rate is 5% lower than it was last year. (b) Data indicate that the graduation rate dropped mainly because of the pandemic. (c) Data indicate that, due to the continuing strains and challenges from the pandemic, the university anticipates lower graduation rates for the next two years. (d) To support students toward their goal to graduation, data suggest
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students need more faculty support than they did prior to the pandemic so the university updates their faculty support policies. The statement labeled (c) is which type of data analytics? - ANSWER-Predictive (a) A university publishes its graduation rate on its website. The graduation rate is 5% lower than it was last year. (b) Data indicate that the graduation rate dropped mainly because of the pandemic. (c) Data indicate that, due to the continuing strains and challenges from the pandemic, the university anticipates lower graduation rates for the next two years. (d) To support students toward their goal to graduation, data suggest students need more faculty support than they did prior to the pandemic so the university updates their faculty support policies. The statement labeled (b) is which type of data analytics? - ANSWER-Diagnostic A website requires a specific version of a web browser to make use of its features. If a user doesn't or can't use that browser, how can that user experience the features of the site? This example presents a problem with which principle? - ANSWER-Robust A chart describes the change in a population over time. If a user cannot see the chart, how can she understand the data? Which principle is considered in this example? - ANSWER-Perceivable A math teacher is instructing students on a 5-day unit on the Pythagorean theorem. The teacher wants to know how each student is progressing at the end of each day and use that data to adjust instruction for the following day. Which type of assessment should the teacher use to obtain this information? - ANSWER-Formative An instructor is developing a new set of training modules for a 3-day professional development seminar for employees but is unsure which topics to cover. Which of the following assessments would give the instructor the most effective information on which topics to include for the training? - ANSWER-Diagnostic After all teachers in a school completed a 5 hour professional development training on classroom management, a high school principal wants to understand how much information his teachers have retained. This will help him better understand how effective the training was and what topics still need further instruction. Which of the following types of assessment would be best for the principal to determine how well his teachers have understood the content from the training program? - ANSWER- Summative A teacher assigns a 5th grade student an online reading software that provides different e-books with built in assessments throughout. As the student progresses through a book, a learning quiz will pop up to check for understanding. If the student gets the
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some flexibility and support his students, the professor has decided to grade this assessment on a curve to help booster the students' struggling GPA's. This assessment can now best be described as a... - ANSWER-Norm-Referenced Assessment Prospective teachers in a new, accelerated-licensure program have the opportunity to enter the classroom early as a full-time teacher if they are able to demonstrate their mastery of certain pedagogical skills. Many students in this new program have experience in schools as either substitute teachers or in after-school programs. To obtain full-licensure, students must pass 6 classroom observations by a clinical supervisor who will assess them on a variety of skills including classroom management, questioning techniques, and social-emotional learning. These classroom observation assessments can best be described as a... - ANSWER-Standards-Based Assessment A learning experience designer is developing an online assessment that checks employees preparedness for a a competency-based human resources assessment that is now required by the state. - ANSWER-For each incorrect answer, learners are provided with an instructional video that provides an explanation of the correct answer. A high school art teacher teaches students to create portfolios to demonstrate their skills. Students are required to submit monthly artifacts to include in their final portfolio. The artifacts represent students' monthly grade. Students' artifacts must be accepted to receive a passing grade for each assignment. Which monthly process would provide meaningful formative guidance for the students? - ANSWER-At the end of each month, students are provided with a detailed explanation of why their artifacts were accepted or not accepted. A foreign language instructor designs an assessment activity where pairs of students meet on a video conferencing platform to participate in a friendly conversation using basic vocabulary. The instructor will use a checklist to assess students' use of conversational dialog. Which feedback meets the goal of motivating learners? - ANSWER-"Your skillful use of vocabulary will continue to serve you well in effectively expressing what you would like to say to your partner." Students in a poetry course complete a series of writing practice quizzes using a self- paced approach. Quizzes are automatically scored in a learning management system (LMS) with feedback provided by the instructor. The following feedback is provided to the first student who completes a quiz: "You got 8 out of 10 questions correct--great job!." How should this feedback be modified in order to be more effective for students? - ANSWER-It should discuss how the student's performance can be improved. A high school music teacher administered a summative exam that required students to answer short-response items focused on the impact of technology in music. The
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responses were graded on a rubric scale that measured accuracy of information, discussion of impact, and a minimum word count of 500 words. One student received the following written feedback from the teacher: "The information you provided barely met the standards. You also had some grammar issues. For example, while you included some great information on the impact of technology in music, you incorrectly used the words their/there/they're and had multiple run-on sentences. Please revise and resubmit." Is this feedback effective? - ANSWER-No, because grammar was not a category in the rubric As part of a computer coding course for high school students, all learners are required to provide a discussion board post about their daily activity using coding software. The post must include at least three sentences and use correct spelling, grammar, and punctuation. One student writes, "I wrote sum code last nite". Initially, the teacher provides this feedback: "You did not complete the assignment correctly." Which additional statement would make this feedback more effective? - ANSWER-"Please include at least 3 sentences. Rewrite your response with the correct spelling of "sum" and nite" Students in a physical education class must write an essay about their favorite athlete. A teacher for the class reviews the drafts and finds that one student did not include all of the required information. The teacher writes a comment on the draft that says, "You did a great job in discussing who your athlete is and what sport they play. However, please add four more details about the athletes life and provide a picture from the internet." Why would this comment be considered quality feedback? - ANSWER-It includes specific detail about changes that are needed. A basketball coach challenges students to improve their accuracy when shooting free- throws. Students use a shooting machine that automatically tracks their accuracy in an online database where the students can review their progress. At the end of each training session, the coach sends an email to each student. One email reads, "You have been committed to the process of improving your skills. This week's data show that you have greatly improved your accuracy by 10 percent. For next week, try to work on improving your shooting form by keeping your elbow tucked. Then make sure you are following through after each shot you attempt." Is this feedback specific and actionable?
- ANSWER-Yes, it mentions the learning goal, the progress made, and a plan for moving forward. Students in a yearbook club are assigned to develop a custom cover for the cover of the yearbook. One student includes an offensive image within their design. Which instructor feedback would help motivate this learner to recognize the importance of inclusivity in design? - ANSWER-"We want to insure that we are being inclusive to all students at the
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Examples are finding anomalies, finding patterns, data discovery, time-series data. - ANSWER-A Diagnostic _________________ assessment is used to inform; based on data from gathered information. What happened? Examples: business metrics, graphs, storytelling, specify how data is collected and used to inform business decisions. specify how data is collected and used to inform business decisions. - ANSWER-A Descriptive Which analysis is based on objective, numerical data, and statistics. Uses Descriptive analytics to determine what happened. - ANSWER-Quantitative analysis _________________ assessment uses data from the past to predict what might happen in the future. What is likely to happen? Examples: detect future trends, predict future outcomes, forecast events that will occur at a specific time. - ANSWER-A Predictive _________________ assessment offers recommendations based on possible outcomes and helps identify the best options. What should be done? Examples: automate decisions, recommend actions, automate notifications, determine actions, outcome. - ANSWER-A Prescriptive Which analysis is used to determine why something happened based on non-numerical information, such as observations, reflections, and interviews. - ANSWER-Qualitative analysis Which analysis is used to predict future interactions, the study of patterns or trends in relationships among groups of learners or between learners and instructors. - ANSWER-Social network analysis A professional makes a decision regarding what a student learned and how well it was learned. Examples: faculty evaluated papers, tests, or performances. - ANSWER-Direct Assessment The student decides what he or she learned and how well it was learned. Examples: surveys, teaching evaluations. - ANSWER-Indirect Assessment Construct-validity bias - - ANSWER-refers to whether a test accurately measures what it was designed to measure Content-validity bias - - ANSWER-occurs when the content of a test is comparatively more difficult for one group of students than for others
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Predictive-validity bias (or bias in criterion-related validity) - - ANSWER-refers to a test's accuracy in predicting how well a certain student group will perform in the future. Item-selection bias - - ANSWER-a subcategory of content-validity bias, refers to the use of individual test items that are more suited to one group's language and cultural experiences. Bryan leads an HVAC company and wants to select a learning analytics type that will maximize the company's goals. What are two actions that Bryan must incorporate from the company's training practices to ensure the correct learning analytics type is chosen?
- ANSWER-- Pick a strategy and invest in resources and instruments.
- Create a program that analyzes data solicited from trainees who completed the training program. Which two goals align with prescriptive analytics? - ANSWER-- Plan how to achieve an 80% passing rate on chapter tests.
- Determine how to increase the number of students who will graduate next year. When using learning analytics to assess student learning in online courses, which learning analytics technique is often used with descriptive analytics to conduct item analysis of multiple-choice formative assessments? - ANSWER-Quantitative analysis A company has concerns about employee turnover. The learning and development team decides to analyze employee morale information from the past to find out why employees are leaving the company at such a rapid rate. Which type of learning analytics should the learning and development team use? - ANSWER-Diagnostic A learning experience designer meets with a school principal who seeks data for improvement. The principal wants to know if a proposed new e-reading curriculum for the fourth grade will improve reading comprehension measures. - ANSWER-Arrange for each fourth-grade classroom to complete one lesson from the proposed curriculum and compare the scores to student scores on the same lesson from the current curriculum. An instructor wants to determine whether to continue using a new textbook in a course or return to last year's textbook. What kind of assessment data should the instructor use to inform this decision? - ANSWER-Test performance compared to last year A teacher notices that a former straight-A student has started to fail tests. The teacher wants to personalize the lesson to help the student succeed. What assessment data should the teacher use? - ANSWER-Review and compare cumulative test scores.
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What type of learning analytics data could this professor use for the purpose of identifying areas that need improvement for students to be more successful? - ANSWER-The mean score for each assessment in the course How can prescriptive learning analytics data from course evaluations in higher education be used for the purpose of making improvements to a course? - ANSWER- Critical comments can be analyzed to determine areas in the course that may need revision. At the end of a grammar unit for second-grade students, a teacher administers an assessment to determine the students' ability to write complete sentences. Learning analytics show that 25% of all students do not demonstrate competency. How could this instructor use prescriptive learning analytics in order to customize instruction and address this problem? - ANSWER-By determining individual skills that need reteaching by categorizing common errors Administrative support staff in an organization are learning how to prepare digital presentations through an online course. The course is mostly self-paced; content is delivered by a learning management system (LMS) but facilitated by a trainer. New to the training curriculum is an enhanced coaching component. Coaching consists of regularly scheduled one-on-one sessions where course participants meet with the trainer for an hour each week. While the enhanced coaching experience increases the course length, the trainer notes the productive working relationship between coaches and course participants and believes it may positively influence participants' application of digital presentation skills after the training. Two months after the course ends, the organization's human resources (HR) department asks participants to describe how their participation has enhanced their ability to prepare digital presentations. What s - ANSWER-Examine total course hours per participant and associated participant feedback collected by HR A learning experience designer is analyzing data from a study about the effectiveness of server training in a 24-hour restaurant that focuses on upselling desserts. Servers attended training and consented to have their sales data analyzed. The data being analyzed will include the average number of dessert items sold per customer. The study is not taking the time of the order into consideration. Which ethical issue is present in the study? - ANSWER-Validity and reliability of data A graduate student is conducting research for a professor who wants to write an article about the positive impact of mentorship on scholarship recipients. The professor has advised the graduate student to only collect and record data that shows a positive relationship.
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The graduate student is worried that the research is not ethical and approaches the professor to explain that there is an issue with ___________. - ANSWER-confirmation bias In a business management course, students must research and write a paper analyzing the founders of modern management principles. To ensure students approach the assignment as intended, the course instructor requires students to submit an outline of their papers. The instructor reviews each outline and provides feedback to help students develop a complete, clear analysis. Which feedback provides students with formative guidance? - ANSWER-Written comments in each student's outline identifying the student's progress and opportunities for enhancement Students are instructed to predict what will happen if they attempt to grow bean seeds without direct sunlight for a specified growth period. One student group hypothesizes that their bean seeds will not grow without sunlight. Which instructor feedback statement would be meaningful? - ANSWER-"List the steps you can take to test your hypothesis." A teacher uses a rubric to assess students' political cartoon assignments in three areas: message, content, and visual presentation. One student scored four points for the message, four points for the content, and three points for the visual presentation. In addition to providing a score of 11 out of 12 points, the teacher included the following feedback for the student in a comment box: "Please review your classmates' political cartoons." Is this an example of quality feedback? - ANSWER-No, the feedback does not include specific, actionable statements relative to the learning goal. The following is a question on a middle school American history test: Who won the American Civil War? A. The Union (The North) B. The Confederacy (The South) C. Americans D. No one won About a third of the students chose "C" as the answer and got upset when told their answer was incorrect. Why did students choose "C" instead of the right answer? - ANSWER-Because it's too close to the right answer. On an online test, students are given a picture of a partially completed chart of the periodic table and asked to "fill in all of the missing element names." The blank spaces are numbered, and students are asked to type the name of the element next to the
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How can barriers to fairness be mitigated in this assessment? - ANSWER-Offer students the option to research another family's history. A high school history teacher has taught the same group of students all year. The teacher is familiar with the work habits of each student and, at times, has been able to guess the score that each student will receive on an assignment based on its level of difficulty. For their final project, students are required to submit a research paper that highlights a historical event or figure. Students have two weeks to submit the paper. Which scoring bias issue may be a concern in this situation? - ANSWER-The teacher may score the assignment based on prior knowledge of the students. A fifth-grade health teacher forgets to make paper copies of the midsemester multiple- choice assessment. The teacher is required to administer the test by the end of the day; consequently, the teacher decides to project the assessment using the class smart board and have the students write their answers on notebook paper. What is a test administration concern for this assessment? - ANSWER-Accessibility A teacher assigns an essay during the first week of school to assess students' writing abilities. The teacher provides the following prompt: "Share what you did during summer vacation by describing one of the following: (1) a long-distance trip you took, (2) a fancy restaurant you visited, or (3) a major league sporting event you attended." How is this assessment biased? - ANSWER-It does not consider socioeconomic differences among the students. Each week in an organizational management course, students are required to view recorded simulations of conflict resolution scenarios and evaluate the manager's performance in each scenario. The recorded simulations offer transcripts of the dialogue. Which modification would improve accessibility? - ANSWER-Providing audio descriptions that present the visual-only content in the videos Students in an introduction to marketing course took an online assessment requiring them to discuss the marketing techniques demonstrated in a set of statements. The assessment had to be completed within a specific period of time and without access to resources. More than half of the students inaccurately discussed the technique associated with the following statement: "You must rely on the esoteric interests of a group to place your product." How could this assessment be modified to reduce bias? - ANSWER-By using language suited to the students' level of knowledge and experience Grades are due at the end of the week, and a teacher realizes that the students in their class still need to take an end-of-chapter quiz, a unit test, and a midterm exam. The
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teacher explains to the students that they should study hard each night because they will be taking these three assessments over the next three days. How could this assessment plan be modified to improve the students' experience? - ANSWER-Consolidate the content to lessen the cognitive load and alleviate student stress Students in an online humanities course are assigned to listen to and compare samples of three types of music: opera, classical, and jazz. What should be provided to students with hearing loss to increase the accessibility of this assignment? - ANSWER-A description of each sample
