Analysing university student academic performance at the unit level

Parkin, E.; Huband, S.; Gibson, David; Ifenthaler, D.

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Authors

Parkin, E.

Huband, S.

Gibson, David

Ifenthaler, D.

Date

2018

Type

Conference Paper

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Citation

Parkin, E. and Huband, S. and Gibson, D. and Ifenthaler, D. 2018. Analysing university student academic performance at the unit level, pp. 153-160.

Source Title

Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Cognition and Exploratory Learning in the Digital Age, CELDA 2018

ISBN

9789898533814

School

Curtin Teaching and Learning (CTL)

URI

http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/74224

Collection

Curtin Research Publications

Abstract

© 2018 IADIS Press. All Rights Reserved. This paper describes the creation of a dataset to enable the analysis of student academic performance at the unit level at a large Australian University. The dataset was designed to enable academic leaders to explore research questions concerning student performance and pass rates in units. Four example research questions are presented here and explored, to demonstrate the value of the exploratory dataset, along with an overview of the methodology and tools used to synthesise the data. The data handling methodology and reflections on tools and processes may be useful for other analysts.