Researchers have turned their attention to the use of learning analytics and dashboard systems in education. Schools are using knowledge gained in this area to address the issue of persistence to increase graduation rates. While dashboard systems have been developed and are starting to be implemented, it is not yet clear how activity and performance data from dashboards influences student behavior. In addition, much of the research has been focused on instructor-facing dashboards rather than student-facing dashboards. The current study implemented a student-facing dashboard in the learning management system and measured how information on the dashboard may have influenced participation in discussions, student performance on graded items, and persistence in future courses. A dashboard tool was developed for this study. Activity, performance, and persistence data was collected from all participating students. The study followed an experimental design approach that involved assigning a random group of students from multiple courses to a dashboard tool which showed the individual student’s activity and performance compared with that of their peers. Activity indicators included frequency of posting, average length of posts, percent of posts made to peers, and percent of posts made to instructor. The current score for the student, as a measure of performance, was also shown on the dashboard along with the current class average. Multivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA) was used to determine whether there were statistically significant differences in participation as measured by number of posts, word count of posts, and percent of posts to peers or performance as measured by final grade. Chi Squared analysis was used to determine whether there were significant differences in persistence as a measure of whether students registered for and attended the following session. The analysis of results indicated no significant differences in participation or performance between the experimental and control groups (f(4, 59) = .947, p = .443). Similarly, no significant differences were found in persistence between the two groups (χ2(2) = .960, p = .619). Further research is needed to more fully understand the use of student dashboard interfaces and their impact on student behavior. Future studies using a similar methodology should incorporate larger sample sizes and include all students in the class, rather than using self-selected samples. A better understanding of how the use of dashboards influences participation, performance, and persistence is needed in order to develop effective strategies for supporting students.

[pt] O presente trabalho priorizou, através de um estudo de caso, o acompanhamento, o registro e a análise das atividades de jovens universitários membros participantes da ENECOS - Executiva Nacional dos Estudantes de Comunicação Social que lutam pela democratização da comunicação. Foram nove meses de observação participante na Regional Rio de Janeiro, período no qual suas práticas e táticas - inclusive através da Internet - foram postas em foco como forma de analisar um movimento estudantil na contemporaneidade. Além disso, foram realizadas 26 entrevistas sob a forma presencial e aplicados 70 questionários online. Dos dados coletados, buscou-se estudar tanto como teriam sido forjadas as concepções de mídia desses estudantes para que optassem por se envolver pela democratização da comunicação, como os caminhos que os teriam incentivado a se organizar coletivamente em nome de ideais. Os resultados apontam que o diálogo do movimento estudantil com os movimentos sociais organizados seja a principal fonte de mediação. / [en] The present work has emphasized, by dint of a case study, the monitoring of a group of young college students who make part of ENECOS (National Executive of Social Communication Students). The study took nine months of participating observance along with students from the branch in Rio de Janeiro, who fight for the democratization of communication. During this period, in which the practices and tactics - including by means of the internet - were put into focus as a way of analyzing a student´s movement at present times. Besides that, 26 interviews were made personally and 70 online questionnaires were applied. The data collected was used to research not only how the media conceptions of these students were forged, so that they would choose to be involved by the democratization of communication, but also the ways which could have encouraged them to organize themselves collectively in the name of an ideal. The results indicate the dialog between the student´s movement and the organized social movements are the main source of mediation.

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Since more demand is being made of the school to teach democracy--and to practice what it teaches--this work is an attempt to show how some phases of the democratic way of living can be incorporated into a student activity program of a high school, and to offer a democratic plan for the coordination and administration of these student activities.

Nuotolinio mokymo technologijos įgauna pagreitį visame pasaulyje. Technologijos trūkumai ir silpnosios vietos tampa matomesnės, nei bet kada anksčiau. Siekiant patobulinti mokymo procesą ir sumažinti kurso nebaigiančių studentų dalį, vis svarbesnėmis tampa studentų aktyvumo skatinimo ir mokymosi paramos sistemos. Šio darbo tikslai – apžvelgti esamus studentų aktyvumo analizės ir valdymo metodus naudojamus nuotoliniame mokyme. Taip pat, pagerinti esamus arba pasiūlyti gaires naujų kūrimui. Literatūros analizė parodė duomenų gavybos metodų potencialą mokymo valdymo sistemose. Pasiūlytas studentų aktyvumo skatinimo modelis pagrįstas šiais metodais. Naujasis modelis paremtas automatiškai besireguliuojančia sistema, kuri analizuotų besimokančiųjų mokymosi įpročius. Analizės duomenys būtų naudojami sukurti ir siųsti personalizuotus priminimus ir pranešimus apie mokymosi sistemos įvykius. Ta pati sistema galėtų informuoti kurso vedėją apie neįprastus studentų veiklos pokyčius, padidėjusią nesėkmingo kurso baigimo tikimybę. Atliktas tyrimas patvirtinantis modelio kūrimui pasirinktas prielaidas ir jo reikalingumą. / Distance education technology is gaining momentum all around the world. Weaknesses and limitations in the technology are exposed more than ever. Activities, such as, stimulation of students’ activity and development of support systems are becoming important in attempts to lower student dropout rates and improve quality of education. This thesis has goals to review existing methodology of analyzing and encouraging student activity in higher education courses based on online technology. As well as to enhance current methods and set guidelines for development of the new ones. Literature analysis has highlighted the astonishing potential of data mining methods in Learning Management Systems. Based on these methods a new model of students’ activity stimulation has been suggested. The new model is based on automatic self tuning system which would analyze the behavior patterns of course users. The results of this analysis would be used to compose and send notifications of course events which are relevant for and desired by the individual user while respecting their learning patterns. Same system could inform instructor of any abnormalities in student learning behavior, unfavorable odds to successfully complete the course or even drop out. A study has been made, which confirmed the initial assumptions and potential usefulness of the proposed model.

[pt] O campo de trabalho desta dissertação baseia-se em uma pesquisa etnográfica realizada entre os alunos de uma escola pública federal do Rio de Janeiro. Buscou-se privilegiar o olhar sobre as configurações de experimentação da sexualidade e das identidades de gênero e do movimento estudantil, bem como as suas relações com a tradicional instituição, professores, servidores e técnicos, e com o mundo para além dos seus muros. O eixo central desta investigação colocou-se no desafio de acompanhar e perceber as diversas formas de expressar-se, mover-se e afirmar-se através das performances de gênero, das práticas sexuais e das primeiras experimentações participativas de construção da ação política no âmbito escolar e nas suas relações com a realidade da sociedade contemporânea. Esta dissertação dedica-se a descrever antes territorialidades do que identidades, diferenças do que diversidade, singularidades do que totalidades. Ressalta-se também a percepção da ação como uma multiplicidade de outras ações entrelaçadas, atualizando o que vem a se chamar o ator-rede e operando conceitos indiscindíveis, como sociedade e indivíduo, natureza e cultura, humano e não-humano. / [en] The field of work that generated this dissertation is based on an ethnographic research conducted among students from a public school in Rio de Janeiro. It focuses on the configurations of the experimentation of the sexuality and the student movement, as well as its relations with the traditional institution, teachers, servants and technicians, and with the world beyond its walls. The central axis of this investigation was placed in the challenge to follow and understand the various ways to express themselves, to move and to assert itself through the gender performances, sexual practices and the first participatory trials construction of political action within school and in their relations with the reality of contemporary society. This dissertation is dedicated to describe before territorialities than identities, differences than diversity, singularities than totalities. We should point out the perception of the action as a multitude of other interwoven actions, updating what comes to be called the actor-network and operating concepts un-discernable, as society and the individual, nature and culture, human and non-human.

The purpose of this study is to compare the perceptions of two groups of student personnel administrators (chief student affairs officers or deans of students and directors of student activities) with respect to current and expected student activity fee policies and procedures in four-year public institutions of higher education in the United States. The comparison is based on the demographic variables of position held, number of years experience in student personnel administration, and geographical location of the institutions by region.

[pt] O presente trabalho tem como objetivo investigar as especificidades do jovem universitário evangélico brasileiro, a vivência da fé por parte deste jovem, e a sua relação com a Igreja. A tese é predominantemente pastoral e neste estudo foi realizado uma pesquisa bibliográfica aliada a uma pesquisa qualitativa, através de uma pesquisa de campo, considerando que o que se pretende é interpretar a realidade vivencial do jovem universitário evangélico. O método qualitativo permite atingir o segmento identificado, o jovem universitário evangélico, e investigar em profundidade a vivência da fé deste jovem. Inicialmente busca-se conhecer o rosto do jovem universitário evangélico, identificando suas principais características, suas potencialidades e deficiências, sua religiosidade, seus gostos, sua estrutura familiar e suas relações na sociedade. No segundo capítulo busca-se observar a vivência da fé do jovem universitário evangélico. No terceiro capítulo é enfocado a relação do jovem universitário evangélico com a Igreja no serviço ao mundo. Por último, o objetivo é apontar caminhos para as igrejas locais e movimentos estudantis, pastores e missionários, líderes de juventude e adultos, e a todos que desejam atuar junto aos universitários evangélicos para que estes possam vivenciar sua fé de maneira sadia e relevante na sociedade. / [en] The present work aims to investigate the specificities of the Brazilian young evangelical university student, his experience of faith, and relationship with the Church. The thesis is predominantly pastoral, and in this study it was made bibliographical research carried out together with a qualitative one, through research in the field, considering that what is intended is to interpret the experiential reality of the young evangelical university student. The qualitative method allows us to reach the identified segment, the young evangelical university student, and to investigate in depth the experience of this young man s faith. Initially, it seeks to know the face of the young evangelical university student, identifying his main characteristics, potentialities and deficiencies, his religiosity, tastes, family structure and his relations in society. The second chapter seeks to observe the experience of the faith of the evangelical university student. The third chapter focuses on the relationship of the young evangelical university with the Church in the service of the world. Finally, the goal is to point out ways for local churches and student movements, pastors and missionaries, youth leaders and adults, and all those who wish to work with evangelical university students, so that they can live their faith healthily and relevantly in society.

[pt] Esta pesquisa tem como objeto o movimento estudantil organizado da UFRuralRJ, dirigido pelo DCE, nos últimos vinte e cinco anos. Esta investigação teve como material empírico os depoimentos coletados sobre a forma de entrevistas, com ex-estudantes que ocuparam posições de liderança no movimento estudantil no período estudado e exerceram cargos de direção no DCE. Dessa forma buscou-se reconstruir a memória social desse movimento, baseada no relato dos estudantes que rememoram e reinterpretam suas vivências e experiências. O estudo analisou o significado atribuído pelos militantes à sua atuação política e sua influência na formação acadêmica e profissional, destacando a importância dessa atuação no conjunto de sua experiência de vida e na sua concepção de sociedade. O movimento estudantil é investigado como uma instância de formação política e acadêmica privilegiada na aquisição do habitus universitário, e como integrante de uma estratégia de distinção no interior da instituição. A origem social e a trajetória escolar desponta como influência importante na disposição do estudante de ingressar no movimento estudantil, reforçada pela intensa convivência no campus. O processo de construção das representações e modos de vida dos estudantes universitários investigados aponta para a centralidade do movimento estudantil nestas trajetórias. / [en] The object of this research is the student activity which has been organized and directed by the DCE of UFRuralRJ for the last twenty five years. The empirical material of this investigation was the collected testimony through interviews with former students who had command position in the students activity during that studied period of time. They were also in change of leadership positions at DCE. This way we tried to restore the social memory of these students who remember and reinterpret their own existences and experiences. The study analyzed the meaning given by the militants to their political performance and this influence on the professional and academic development. It also stood out the importance of such performance in their life experience and society perception. The student activity is investigated as a privileged entreaty of professional and academic development in the acquisition of university habitus and it is also investigated as part of strategies of distinction inside the institution. The social origin and the school trajectory emerge as an important influence on the student`s willingness to enter the student activity, reinforced by the intense conviviality at the campus. The process of construction of student`s investigated representation and ways of life aims at the core of student activity in the trajectories.