This week my family took a trip to Kyoto. My hotel delivered a daily paper, which was nice because I never read the newspaper. I stumbled onto this article by David Streitfeld.
The article was about a few textbooks that have offered digital access, and then reported to the professor how much a student was using their textbook. The findings are not surprising, the more time a student spends in the textbook, the better they do on tests and quizzes. Often the results from data are not surprising.
The article also points out that a student can increase their "engagement index" by "leaving their book open and doing something else." I agree that it would not be beneficial to make the "engagement index" part of a student's grade, because students will merely go through the motions. However, I do believe that the data can be used as a discussion point with these students.
This is how I frequently use the data that I collect about my students. I share my findings with my students and I talk to them about the characteristics of successful students. I will discuss these findings in a later post. I want to collect data over multiple units before I draw conclusions.
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