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Colleges Mine Data to Tailor Students' Experience CSci4707 Presentation Group 31 Educational data mining • Students input answers in Learning Catalytics, software designed by Brian Lukoff, their instructor. The screen shows a map of everyone's answers, telling him who needs help. Debate • Proponents feel that making better use of data to inform decisions • skeptics worry that data-mining fosters a factory-line approach to education: respond to instructor prompts rather than express creativity • How much should students be told about the behind-thescenes computer analysis that manipulates their educational experiences? And how far should colleges go in shaping those experiences based on data patterns? Potential Applications-Better Choices? • Austin Peay: software that recommends courses • picking a major • Admission: both students and college admissions officers Classroom 'Clickstreams' • selects student discussion groups • manage the pace of classes • inviting students to submit open-ended responses • encourage argument by pairing different opionion Signals for Success: the future • web courses: predicts with 70-percent accuracy -reasons... • can you change a student's trajectory? -mixed... Colleges will push for more and more info