The promise and peril of learning analytics in P-12 education: an uneasy partnership?

Meyer, Eric; Cahill, Maria; Subramaniam, Mega; Stripling, Barbara

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Title

The promise and peril of learning analytics in P-12 education: an uneasy partnership?

Author(s)

Meyer, Eric; Cahill, Maria; Subramaniam, Mega; Stripling, Barbara

Issue Date

2016-03-15

Keyword(s)

• learning analytics
• P-12 education
• educational policy
• education informatics

Abstract

Applying learning analytic approaches in the P-12 context could radically change the nature of elementary and secondary education. Yet, there are great hurdles to overcome in implementing such approaches at this level, including: the lack of technical infrastructure and human capital to collect and analyze data; the ability to make sense of the analytics collected for teaching and learning improvement,; the ethical challenges related to data collection and retention for minors; the unanticipated or unintended uses of this data in the future, etc. The purpose of this SIE is threefold: 1) to further refine the conversation by situating issues, ethics and methods for learning analytics in P-12 education; 2) to envision the potential and pitfalls of analytics in P-12 learning contexts; and 3) to identify and develop a set of concrete takeaways related to our theme such as ideas for future research proposals, journal articles, and/or applications.

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iSchools

Series/Report Name or Number

IConference 2016 Proceedings

Type of Resource

text

Language

eng

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http://hdl.handle.net/2142/89459

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https://doi.org/10.9776/16518

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