Print Email Facebook Twitter From students with love Title From students with love: An empirical study on learner goals, self-regulated learning and sense-making of learning analytics in higher education Author Jivet, I. (TU Delft Web Information Systems; Open University of the Netherlands) Scheffel, Maren (Open University of the Netherlands) Schmitz, Marcel (Zuyd University of Applied Science) Robbers, Stefan (Open University of the Netherlands) Specht, M.M. (TU Delft Web Information Systems; Open University of the Netherlands) Drachsler, Hendrik (Open University of the Netherlands; Goethe University; DIPF The German Institute of International Educational Research) Date 2020 Abstract Unequal stakeholder engagement is a common pitfall of adoption approaches of learning analytics in higher education leading to lower buy-in and flawed tools that fail to meet the needs of their target groups. With each design decision, we make assumptions on how learners will make sense of the visualisations, but we know very little about how students make sense of dashboard and which aspects influence their sense-making. We investigated how learner goals and self-regulated learning (SRL) skills influence dashboard sense-making following a mixed-methods research methodology: a qualitative pre-study followed-up with an extensive quantitative study with 247 university students. We uncovered three latent variables for sense-making: transparency of design, reference frames and support for action. SRL skills are predictors for how relevant students find these constructs. Learner goals have a significant effect only on the perceived relevance of reference frames. Knowing which factors influence students' sense-making will lead to more inclusive and flexible designs that will cater to the needs of both novice and expert learners. Subject Higher educationLearner goalsLearning analytics dashboardSelf-regulated learningSense-makingStudent-facing learning analytics To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:037da4f1-abd4-4296-9b85-7f3fa201fc93 DOI https://doi.org/10.1016/j.iheduc.2020.100758 ISSN 1096-7516 Source Internet and Higher Education, 47 Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type journal article Rights © 2020 I. Jivet, Maren Scheffel, Marcel Schmitz, Stefan Robbers, M.M. Specht, Hendrik Drachsler Files PDF 1_s2.0_S1096751620300348_main.pdf 3.08 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:037da4f1-abd4-4296-9b85-7f3fa201fc93/datastream/OBJ/view