Learning Engineering Toolkit

CHAPTER 6 Learning Engineering Uses Data (Part 2): Analytics

by Michelle Barrett, Erin Czerwinski, Jim Goodell, Daniel Jacobs, Steve Ritter, Robert Sottilare, and Khanh-Phuong Thai

Learning engineering is a process and practice that applies the learning sciences using human-centered engineering design methodologies and data-informed decision- making to support learners and their development.

This chapter is a high-level introduction to data analysis for decision-making within the learning engineering process. It addresses the use of data for feedback to the learner and people supporting learners, and it addresses the use of data to inform iterative improvements to engineered solutions. It gives some high-level guidance to non-statisticians ...