Learning Analytics in a Band Classroom
In my experience in my practicum classroom, my cooperating teacher uses a lot of data to make decisions in her classroom. Being a band class, you cannot exactly track grades to track understanding. A student could fully understand the music in front of them, but not have access to a way to come to a concert. Their concert grade would probably be low, because they cannot attend, but their understanding would not reflect that grade. I feel like this probably shines through in other ways for other classes, but I personally only have this perspective. My cooperating teacher instead sends out surveys to the students. Once every couple weeks, the students spend one class period filling out a Google form about how they feel about their participation in class as a whole and their understanding of the individual pieces being worked on in class. I value this way of "evaluating", because I feel like it honors the core reason for learning analytics.. to help our students! With a Google f...

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