What Constitutes an ‘Actionable Insight’ in Learning Analytics?

What Constitutes an Effective Representation?

This paper presents a taxonomy of 19 cognitive criteria for judging what constitutes effective representational systems, particularly for knowledge rich topics. Two classes of cognitive criteria are discussed. The first concerns access to concepts by reading and making inferences from external representations. The second class addresses the generation and manipulation of external representation...

Actionable Analytics for Software Engineering

What constitutes an episode in episodic memory?

The idea of episodic memory implies the existence of a process that segments experience into episodes so that they can be stored in memory. It is therefore surprising that the link between event segmentation and the organization of experiences into episodes in memory has not been addressed. We found that after participants read narratives containing temporal event boundaries at varying location...

Defining and Conceptualizing Actionable Insight: A Conceptual Framework for Decision-centric Analytics

Despite actionable insight being widely recognized as the outcome of data analytics, there is a lack of a systematic and commonly-agreed definition for the term. More importantly, existing definitions are generally too abstract for informing the design of data analytics systems. This study proposes a definition of actionable insight as a multi-component concept comprising analytic insight, syne...

What Constitutes a Contract?