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During this age of data proliferation, heavy reliance is placed on data visualisation to support users in making sense of vast quantities of information. Informational Dashboards have become the must have accoutrement for ...
Archer, Elizabeth; Barnes, Glen(European Association of Institutional Research, 2015-08-31)
During this age of data proliferation, heavy reliance is placed on data visualisation to support users in making sense of vast quantities of information: Finding the signal in the noise (Silver 2012). Informational Dashboards ...
Prinsloo, Paul; Archer, Elizabeth; Barnes, Glen; Chetty, Yuraisha; Van Zyl, Dion(The International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2015-02)
In the context of the hype, promise and perils of Big Data and the currently dominant paradigm of data-driven decision-making, it is important to critically engage with the potential of Big Data for higher education. We ...
Student success and retention is a primary goal of higher education institutions across the world. The cost of student failure and dropout in higher education is multifaceted including, amongst other things, the loss of ...
A major motivation for students of all ages to enter tertiary education is to improve
their access to the job market and increase the likelihood of success in their career
trajectories (McCune, Hounsell, Christie, Cree, ...
Reform and improvement are imperative in the current South African education system. Monitoring
of school and learner achievement is an essential for establishing praxis for school improvement.
Diversity of culture and ...
South Africa and New Zealand have similar outcomes-based education curricula and share an
assessment philosophy framework that encourages assessment for learning. There are, however, weighty
differences ...
There has been an increased emphasis on providing schools with feedback on
performance of learners with the aim of improving the quality of education. However, if
feedback on learner performance is to be ...