quiz1 Flashcards
Employees in an organization are not completing a training course on their first attempt, resulting in additional costs for the organization. A training manager wants to anticipate the likelihood of participants’ failure while participants are engaged in the course and recommend customized remediation that is embedded throughout participants’ first attempt at the course and is based on each participant’s needs.
Which type of learning analytics should this trainer use to suggest various actions to participants to help them complete the course successfully on their first attempt?
Prescriptive
A special education school administrator is concerned that students with special needs are not making adequate progress in developing literacy skills. The administrator sets a goal that the literacy scores of students with disabilities will increase by 12% by the end of the following school year.
Which type of learning analytics should this special education administrator use when reviewing performance levels during the year?
Descriptive
A principal is concerned that 14% of students in a high school are absent five or more school days per month. The principal sets a goal to decrease the overall absenteeism rates by 10% between the third and final term.
Which type of learning analytics should this principal consider when trying to determine why some students have been chronically absent?
Diagnostic
A data analyst for a school district is asked to provide information to the district’s superintendent on how each school in the district performed on the math portion of a state standardized test. Specifically, the superintendent wants to know which schools had fifth-grade students solve two-step math word problems with at least 70% accuracy on the test. The data analyst plans to summarize the schools’ performance data using graphs.
Which type of learning analytics does this assignment represent?
Descriptive
A history curriculum department for a K–12 school district has created a history fair project: Sixth-grade students will present a historically significant character as part of a living museum. To determine how prepared students are for this project, teachers in the district have asked students to demonstrate their speeches before the fair. The teachers use a rubric to assess each student’s presentation as meets expectations or below expectations in four categories: accuracy, presentation, scope, and bias. The scores are entered into a learning management system (LMS) for review by a history department coordinator to determine which schools need additional support.
Which type of learning analytics does this process represent?
Prescriptive
____ analytics answers the question: “What is likely to happen?
Predictive
___ analytics answers the question: “Why did it happen?
Diagnostic
____ analytics answers the question: “What happened?
Descriptive
____ analytics answers the question: “What should be done
Prescriptivw
A university publishes its graduation rate on its website. The graduation rate is 5% lower than it was last year. To support students toward their goal to graduation, data suggest students need more faculty support than they did prior to the pandemic so the university updates their faculty support policies.
Prescriptive
A website requires a specific version of a web browser to make use of its features. If a user doesn’t or can’t use that browser, how can that user experience the features of the site?
Robust
A chart describes the change in a population over time. If a user cannot see the chart, how can she understand the data?
Perceivable
A math teacher is instructing students on a 5-day unit on the Pythagorean theorem. The teacher wants to know how each student is progressing at the end of each day and use that data to adjust instruction for the following day. Which type of assessment should the teacher use to obtain this information?
Formative
A university publishes its graduation rate on its website. The graduation rate is 5% lower than it was last year. Data indicate that, due to the continuing strains and challenges from the pandemic, the university anticipates lower graduation rates for the next two years.
Predictive
A university publishes its graduation rate on its website. The graduation rate is 5% lower than it was last year. Data indicate that the graduation rate dropped mainly because of the pandemic.
Diagnostic
