TY - GEN
T1 - Supporting the acquisition of scientific skills by the use of learning analytics
AU - Salas, Daniel J.
AU - Baldiris, Silvia
AU - Fabregat, Ramón
AU - Graf, Sabine
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© Springer International Publishing AG 2016.
PY - 2016
Y1 - 2016
N2 - Beginning researchers in general face various difficulties when initiating a process of scientific research due to the unavailability of proper tutoring or the minimum knowledge about research methodology and, this impacts the reliability of the process, the time and the results of the research in question. The purpose of this work is to support the acquisition of scientific skills by offering to beginning researchers learning analytics in each and every one of the phases and stages of the investigative process based on the actions and interactions that teachers/supervisors, experts and researchers make during this investigative process. Therefor, it is presented, as a detailed case study, the skill of formulating research questions by defining the process that was used, including the actors, the measurements, and the indicators, the formative process and the interactions managed with the Binnproject software. Finally the K-means algorithm is used in analyzing students’ behavior and creating clusters according to their performance during the process of formulating scientific questions, this way supporting the process of determining strategies able to strengthen scientific competences for both students and the teaching practice.
AB - Beginning researchers in general face various difficulties when initiating a process of scientific research due to the unavailability of proper tutoring or the minimum knowledge about research methodology and, this impacts the reliability of the process, the time and the results of the research in question. The purpose of this work is to support the acquisition of scientific skills by offering to beginning researchers learning analytics in each and every one of the phases and stages of the investigative process based on the actions and interactions that teachers/supervisors, experts and researchers make during this investigative process. Therefor, it is presented, as a detailed case study, the skill of formulating research questions by defining the process that was used, including the actors, the measurements, and the indicators, the formative process and the interactions managed with the Binnproject software. Finally the K-means algorithm is used in analyzing students’ behavior and creating clusters according to their performance during the process of formulating scientific questions, this way supporting the process of determining strategies able to strengthen scientific competences for both students and the teaching practice.
KW - K-means algorithm
KW - Learning analytics
KW - Research questions
KW - Scientific skills
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84995960344&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-319-47440-3_32
DO - 10.1007/978-3-319-47440-3_32
M3 - Published Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84995960344
SN - 9783319474397
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 281
EP - 293
BT - Advances in Web-Based Learning - ICWL 2016 - 15th International Conference, Proceedings
A2 - Nanni, Umberto
A2 - Temperini, Marco
A2 - Spaniol, Marc
A2 - Chiu, Dickson K.W.
A2 - Marenzi, Ivana
T2 - 15th International Conference on Advances in Web-Based Learning, ICWL 2016
Y2 - 26 October 2016 through 29 October 2016
ER -