Category Archives: assessment analytics

What do I really think about learning analytics?

Posted on January 6, 2016 by Sally Jordan

There have been two very good webinars on learning analytics recently in the Transforming Assessment series. On 9th Sept 2015, Cath Ellis from the University of New South Wales and Rachel Forsyth from Manchester Metropolitan University spoke on “What can … Continue reading →

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Hello again…and take care

Posted on May 29, 2014 by Sally Jordan

Apologies for my lack of activity on this site in the past couple of months; paradoxically this is because I have been so busy with assessment work. So expect various thoughts in the next couple of months, as I write … Continue reading →

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Why learning analytics have to be clever

Posted on March 28, 2014 by Sally Jordan

  I am surprised that I haven’t posted the figure below previously, but I don’t think I have. It shows the number of independent users (dark blue) and usages (light blue) on a question by question basis. So the light … Continue reading →

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Better engagement with continuous assessment, better exam score

Posted on October 26, 2013 by Sally Jordan

This is unlikely to be much of a surprise. The middle horizontal line in each of the box plots shown below indicates the median exam score and the vertical height of each box indicates the inter-quartile range. The solid line … Continue reading →

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