{"title":"About or with Teachers? A Systematic Review of Learning Analytics Interventions to Support Teacher Professional Development","authors":"Elena Gabbi","doi":"10.30557/qw000053","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Learning analytics (LA) allows aggregate data about users’ to support decision making. Although teachers are recognised as important stakeholders, little is yet explored about the role that LA can play in teacher professional development (TPD). This paper aimed to conduct a systematic review of the use of LA in TPD context, focusing specifically on intervention studies, classifying purposes and methods as well as beneficiaries’ engagement and lessons learned. Search terms identified 189 papers and 31 studies were selected based on the inclusion criteria. The results show that most studies adopted data-driven approaches to monitoring teacher behaviours, through automatic extraction of logs in technology-enhanced learning environments. The perspectives, benefits and limitations in the application of LA to TPD are finally presented.","PeriodicalId":41384,"journal":{"name":"Qwerty","volume":"51 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4000,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Qwerty","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.30557/qw000053","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q4","JCRName":"COMPUTER SCIENCE, INTERDISCIPLINARY APPLICATIONS","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Learning analytics (LA) allows aggregate data about users’ to support decision making. Although teachers are recognised as important stakeholders, little is yet explored about the role that LA can play in teacher professional development (TPD). This paper aimed to conduct a systematic review of the use of LA in TPD context, focusing specifically on intervention studies, classifying purposes and methods as well as beneficiaries’ engagement and lessons learned. Search terms identified 189 papers and 31 studies were selected based on the inclusion criteria. The results show that most studies adopted data-driven approaches to monitoring teacher behaviours, through automatic extraction of logs in technology-enhanced learning environments. The perspectives, benefits and limitations in the application of LA to TPD are finally presented.
期刊介绍:
Qwerty is the commonly accepted name for the computer keyboard, comprising the first six letters of its top row. When typewriters were first introduced, the keys were arranged in alphabetical order. However this order meant that people typed too quickly such that the keys soon became entangled. To counter this, the keys were displayed in random order and typing speeds accordingly slowed down. In later years, despite the fact that the problem of speed had been completely overcome, the keyboard retained its random order. In our view, this represents an excellent metaphor for the entanglement of culture and technological tools. In actual fact, we regard computer-based technologies as cultural artefacts, representing different depths in the daily work and study activity of individuals, social groups, and institutions. We believe that different models of computer use and activity within online environments mediate social interaction. As such, the relationship between culture and technological tools is becoming more and more complex and now provides an opportunity for determining new models of cognitive, psychological, and social interaction. Qwerty hopes to be a place where such issues can be discussed and developed. The journal arises from a growing awareness of the need to develop research and reflection on the impact, effects and nature of technology use and, as such, is intended to be a genuinely cross-disciplinary forum. Qwerty wishes to provide a forum for discussion on the use of new technologies aimed at anyone interested in the use of technology in such fields as education, training, social and university research, including the cultural, social, pedagogical, psychological, economic, professional, ethical and aesthetical aspects of technology use.