Dashboard for actionable feedback on learning skills: Scalability and usefulness

Abstract

In the transition from secondary to higher education, students are expected to develop a set of learning skills. This paper reports on a dashboard implemented and designed to support this development, hereby bridging the gap between Learning Analytics research and the daily practice of supporting students. To demonstrate the scalability and usefulness of the dashboard, this paper reports on an intervention with 1406 first-year students in 12 different programs. The results show that the dashboard is perceived as clear and useful.While students not accessing the dashboard have lower learning skills, they make more use of the extra remediation possibilities in the dashboard.