Data Analytics Applications in Education (Hardcover)

1. Introduction: Big Data Analytics in a Learning Environment

I. Data Analytics to Improve the Learning Process

2. Improved Student Feedback with Process and Data Analytics
Johannes De Smedt, Seppe K.L.M. Vanden Broucke, Jan Vanthienen, and Kristof De Witte

3. Toward Data for Development: A Model on Learning Communities as a Platform for Growing Data Use
Wouter Schelfhout

4. The Impact of Fraudulent Behavior on the Usefulness of Learning Analytics Applications: The Case of Question and Answer Sharing with Medium-Stakes Online Quizzing in Higher Education
Silvester Draaijer and Chris Van Klaveren

II. Data Analytics to Measure Performance

5. Disentangling Faculty Efficiency from Students’ Effort
Cristian Barra, Sergio Destefanis, Vania Sena, and Roberto Zotti

6. Using Data Analytics to Benchmark Schools: The Case of Portugal
Maria C. Andrade E Silva and Ana S. Camanho

7. The Use of Educational Data Mining Procedures to Assess Students’ Performance in a Bayesian Framework
Kristof De Witte, Grazia Graziosi, and Joris Hindryckx

8. Using Statistical Analytics to Study School Performance through Administrative Datasets
Tommaso Agasisti, Francesca Ieva, Chiara Masci, Anna Maria Paganoni, and Mara Soncin

III. Policy Relevance and the Challenges Ahead

9. The Governance of Big Data in Higher Education
Kurt De Wit and Bruno Broucker

10. Evidence-Based Education and Its Implications for Research and Data Analytics with an Application to the Overeducation Literature
Wim Groot and Henriette Maassen Van Den Brink

Index