Dynamic assessment (DA) has been advocated as an interactive approach to conduct assessments to students in the learning systems as it can differentiate student proficiency at a finer grained level. Sternberg and others have been pursuing an alternative to IQ tests. They proposed to give students tests to see how much assistance it takes a student to learn a topic; and to use as a measure of th...

How should a wide variety of educational activities be sequenced in order to maximize student learning? We recently proposed the Sequencing Constraint Violation Analysis (SCOVA) method to help address this question. In this paper, we propose how SCOVA could be transformed into a workflow in LearnSphere so that other researchers and practitioners can find answers to the aforementioned question i...

The following link provides a well-referenced introduction to learning analytics, a relatively new field of data collection for educational purposes. The site offers definitions of terms, history, methods, uses, software, ethical issues, and resources. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learning_analytics [1] The link below provides information on educational data mining, including such topics as us...

The following link provides a well-referenced introduction to learning analytics, a relatively new field of data collection for educational purposes. The site offers definitions of terms, history, methods, uses, software, ethical issues, and resources. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learning_analytics [1] The link below provides information on educational data mining, including such topics as us...