Learning Analytics Goes to School: A Collaborative Approach to Improving Education

Learning Analytics Goes to School provides a clear and practical overview of how to harness excitement over big data and learning analytics in education for educational improvement at scale. The approach outlined by the authors provides concrete guidance for how research-practice partnerships can use large data sets, new analytic techniques, and methods of improvement science to design and test solutions to problems of practice. It is a must read and great reference book for those new to educational data science, as well as those seeking to embrace a more collaborative approach to education research.

-William R. Penuel, Professor of Learning Sciences and Human Development, University of Colorado, USA

Learning Analytics Goes to School is for anyone interested in understanding the growing use of data pertaining to students and their digitally-mediated learning activities. This book provides a thorough and thoughtful discussion of the primary issues related to educational data, and a step-by-step guide to addressing these issues by implementing a process called `Collaborative Data-intensive Improvement' (CDI). The authors demystify jargon, lay out the basic concepts of data science for education, and provide a roadmap for creating research-practice partnerships aimed at producing reliably positive outcomes for all students. Written in a style that is both professional and accessible, this will be a valuable resource for teachers and administrators as well as researchers.

-Stephanie D. Teasley, Research Professor in the School of Information at the University of Michigan, and President of the Society for Leaning Analytics Research (SoLAR), USA