Data Analytics Applications in Education

277 Pages·2018·4.37 MB·English

by  Jan Vanthienen

Data Analytics Applications
in Education

Data Analytics Applications
in Education
Edited By
Jan Vanthienen and Kristof De Witte
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Contents
Editors .............................................................................................................vii
Contributors ......................................................................................................ix
1 Introduction: Big Data Analytics in a Learning Environment .............1
KRISTOF DE WITTE AND JAN VANTHIENEN
Part I Data aNaLYtICS tO IMPrOVE
tHE LEarNING PrOCESS
2 Improved Student Feedback with Process and Data Analytics ...........11
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 .............................37
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 ............................................................................................83
SILVESTER DRAAIJER AND CHRIS VAN KLAVEREN
Part II Data aNaLYtICS
tO MEaSUrE PErFOrMaNCE
5 Disentangling Faculty Efficiency from Students’ Effort ....................105
CRISTIAN BARRA, SERGIO DESTEFANIS, VANIA SENA, AND
ROBERTO ZOTTI
6 Using Data Analytics to Benchmark Schools: The Case of Portugal .....127
MARIA C. ANDRADE E SILVA AND ANA S. CAMANHO
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7 The Use of Educational Data Mining Procedures to Assess
Students’ Performance in a Bayesian Framework .............................161
KRISTOF DE WITTE, GRAZIA GRAZIOSI, AND JORIS HINDRYCKX
8 Using Statistical Analytics to Study School Performance through
Administrative Datasets ....................................................................181
TOMMASO AGASISTI, FRANCESCA IEVA, CHIARA MASCI, ANNA
MARIA PAGANONI, AND MARA SONCIN
Part III POLICY rELEVaNCE
aND tHE CHaLLENGES aHEaD
9 The Governance of Big Data in Higher Education ............................211
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 ...........................................................................................233
WIM GROOT AND HENRIETTE MAASSEN VAN DEN BRINK
Index ..........................................................................................................259
editors
Kristof De Witte is a tenured associate professor at the Faculty of Economics
and Business at KU Leuven, Belgium, and he holds the chair in “ Effectiveness
and Efficiency of Educational Innovations” at Top Institute for Evidence-Based
Education Research at Maastricht University, the Netherlands. Kristof De Witte
is further an affiliated member of the CESifo Network (Ludwig-Maximilians
University and Ifo Institute). At KU Leuven, Kristof De Witte is director of the
research center “ Leuven Economics of Education Research.” His research interests
include education economics, performance evaluation, and early school leaving.
He has published his work in many international academic journals, including The
Economic Journal , Journal of Urban Economics , European Journal of Operational
Research , Economics of Education Research , European Journal of Political Economy ,
and Scientometrics.
Jan Vanthienen is full professor of information systems at KU Leuven, Belgium,
Department of Decision Sciences and Information Management, Information
Systems Group, where he is teaching and researching on business intelligence,
analytics, business rules, processes and decisions, business information systems,
and information management. He has published more than 200 full papers in
reviewed top international journals (such as MIS Quarterly , Machine Learning ,
Management Science , Journal of Machine Learning Research , IEEE Transactions on
Neural Networks, Expert Systems with Applications , IEEE Transactions on Knowledge
and Data Engineering , Information Systems , and Health Information Management
Journal ) and conference proceedings. He is a founding member and currently
coordinator of the Leuven Institute for Research in Information Systems (LIRIS)
and co-chairholder of the bpost bank research chair on Actionable Analytics, and
the Colruyt-Symeta Research Chair on Smart Marketing Analytics. He received
an IBM Faculty Award in 2011 on smart decisions and the Belgian Francqui Chair
2009 at FUNDP on smart systems. He is co-founder and president-elect of the
Benelux Association for Information Systems (BENAIS).
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Contributors
Tommaso Agasisti Sergio Destefanis
Department of Management, Department of Economics and
Economics, and Industrial Statistics
Engineering University of Salerno
Politecnico di Milano School Salerno, Italy
of Management
Milan, Italy
Kurt De Wit
Data Management Unit of the
Cristian Barra
Education Policy Department
Department of Economics and
KU Leuven
Statistics
Leuven, Belgium
University of Salerno
Salerno, Italy
Silvester Draaijer
Faculty of Behavioral and Movement
Bruno Broucker
Sciences, LEARN! Academy
Public Governance Institute
Vrije Universiteit
KU Leuven
Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Leuven, Belgium
Ana S. Camanho Grazia Graziosi
Faculdade de Engenharia Department of Economics, Business,
Universidade do Porto Mathematics and Statistics
Porto, Portugal University of Trieste
Trieste, Italy
Johannes De Smedt
Management Science and Business Wim Groot
Economics Group Top Institute for Evidence Based
University of Edinburgh Business Education Research (TIER)
School Maastricht University
Edinburgh, United Kingdom Maastricht, the Netherlands
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