Course Signals at Purdue: Using Learning Analytics to Increase Student Success

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Title: Course Signals at Purdue: Using Learning Analytics to Increase Student Success
Abstract/Description: In this paper, an early intervention solution for collegiate faculty called Course Signals is discussed. Course Signals was developed to allow instructors the opportunity to employ the power of learner analytics to provide real-time feedback to a student. Course Signals relies not only on grades to predict students' performance, but also demographic characteristics, past academic history, and students' effort as measured by interaction with Blackboard Vista, Purdue's learning management system. The outcome is delivered to the students via a personalized email from the faculty member to each student, as well as a specific color on a stoplight -- traffic signal -- to indicate how each student is doing. The system itself is explained in detail, along with retention and performance outcomes realized since its implementation. In addition, faculty and student perceptions will be shared.
Author/creator: Arnold, Kimberly E.; Pistilli, Matthew D.
Date: 2012
In publication: Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Learning Analytics and Knowledge
Series: LAK '12
Pages: 267–270
Publisher: Association for Computing Machinery
Resource type: en Research/Scholarly Media
Resource status/form: en Published Text
Scholarship genre: en Empirical
Keywords: retention; learning analytics; early intervention; college student success
Open access/full-text available: en Yes
Peer reviewed: en No
ISBN: 978-1-4503-1111-3
DOI: 10.1145/2330601.2330666
URL: Official Publisher's Webpage (ACM Digital Library); Full-text PDF Shared by Author (ResearchGate); Full-text PDF Shared by Author (Academia.edu)
Citation: Arnold, K. E., & Pistilli, M. D. (2012). Course Signals at Purdue: Using Learning Analytics to Increase Student Success. Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Learning Analytics and Knowledge, 267–270. https://doi.org/10.1145/2330601.2330666
Place: New York, NY, USA

Item sets: Handbook Chapter 20 Citations

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