Mobile Based Gradebook with Student Outcomes Analytics
This addresses the need for better feedback and planning tools for teachers and students in higher education, but it is incremental as it applies existing analytics methods to a new educational context.
The paper developed a mobile-based gradebook with analytics to monitor student outcomes and provide feedback, finding it adequate for supporting students and teachers in planning and improving teaching activities.
Mobile applications and other integration of information and communication technology (ICT) have become well-known in education to monitor teaching and learning activities. The analysis of student learning through evaluation is a growing area of interest for teachers in higher education aiming to enhance students learning experience. This paper describes a development of student outcomes monitoring tool that applies analytics to provide feedback to students as they progress in the ladder of achieving the intended learning outcomes. The student outcomes focus on the core elements of the curriculum; it offers detailed student outcomes where the result in courses evaluations and recordings are tracked and analyzed. The data revealed that the student outcomes monitoring and analytics tool is adequate in providing constant feedback to students on the achievement of the desired learning outcomes as well as support teachers in planning the teaching and learning activities, enhance feedback system, academic planning and improvement.