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Assessment Analytics in Education

Designs, Methods and Solutions

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  • May 2024

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Editors:
  1. Muhittin Sahin

    1. University of Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany

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  2. Dirk Ifenthaler

    1. Germany and Curtin University, University of Mannheim, Mannheim, Perth, Australia

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  • Provides advances in assessment analytics
  • Introduces new collaborations on designs, methods and solutions in assessment
  • Offers practical solutions to researchers and practitioners

Part of the book series: Advances in Analytics for Learning and Teaching (AALT)

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Keywords

  • Learning analytics
  • assessment analytics
  • feedback theory
  • intervention
  • feedback design
  • learning theories
  • assessment theory

About this book

This book is about the current state of research in online assessment. The growth of this field is set to accelerate exponentially with emerging opportunities for automatic data collection and analysis. Yet, the future of online assessment faces major challenges including, perhaps most importantly, the extent to which assessments, when enabled by technology, can serve simultaneously the needs of learners, teachers and those of the enterprise of education. This book details, specifically, the multiple ways in which online assessment can be utilized, such as:
  • Providing virtual coaching or tutoring
  • Offering appropriate scaffolding
  • Allowing analysis of student decision-making  
  • Providing the mechanism for students to review and comment on each others digital creations
  • Creating a space for online discussion
  • Providing expert coaching for modeling and animation work

With the increased availability of vast and highly varied amounts of data from learners, teachers, learning environments, and administrative systems within educational settings, further opportunities arise for advancing pedagogical assessment practice (Ifenthaler et al., 2018). 

This book fully details these opportunities, as well as privileges and constraints of analytics-enhanced assessment,  harnessing formative as well as summative data from learners and their contexts in order to facilitate learning processes in near real-time and help decisionmakers to improve learning environments. 

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany

    Muhittin Sahin

  • Germany and Curtin University, University of Mannheim, Mannheim, Perth, Australia

    Dirk Ifenthaler

About the editors

Muhittin Sahin is Assoc. Prof. and project manager at Presidency of the Republic of Türkiye Human Resources Office in Ankara, Türkiye and visiting researcher at University of Mannheim, Germany. His research interests relate with instructional technology, learning analytics, educational data mining, multi-criteria decision making, statistic, sequential analysis, e-assessment, artificial intelligence in education, and intelligent learning management systems. He also collaborates in a project about developing an adaptive mastery testing system. He is the Associate Editor of the Technology, Knowledge and Learning  and Journal of the Knowledge Economy journals.


Dirk Ifenthaler is Professor and Chair of Learning, Design and Technology at University of Mannheim, Germany and UNESCO Deputy Chair on Data Science in Higher Education Learning and Teaching at Curtin University, Australia.

His previous roles include Professorand Director, Centre for Research in Digital Learning at Deakin University, Australia, Manager of Applied Research and Learning Analytics at Open Universities, Australia, and Professor for Applied Teaching and Learning Research at the University of Potsdam, Germany. He was a 2012 Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence at the Jeannine Rainbolt College of Education, at the University of Oklahoma, USA. At the University of Latvia, Latvia, he was involved in the Faculty of Education, Psychology and Art as a Visiting Senior Researcher. In 2023, Dirk was a Visiting Professor in the Dipartimento di Pedagogia, Psicologia, Filosofia at the University of Cagliari, Italy.

Dirk’s research focuses on the intersection of cognitive psychology, educational technology, data analytics, and organisational learning. His research outcomes include numerous co-authored books, book series, book chapters, journal articles, and international conference papers, as well as successful grant funding in Australia, Germany, and USA.

He is the Editor-in-Chief of the Technology, Knowledge and Learning and Editor-in-Chief of Educational Technology & Society.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Assessment Analytics in Education

  • Book Subtitle: Designs, Methods and Solutions

  • Editors: Muhittin Sahin, Dirk Ifenthaler

  • Series Title: Advances in Analytics for Learning and Teaching

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2024

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-56364-5Due: 02 June 2024

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-56367-6Due: 02 June 2024

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-56365-2Due: 02 June 2024

  • Series ISSN: 2662-2122

  • Series E-ISSN: 2662-2130

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIV, 412

  • Number of Illustrations: 39 b/w illustrations, 54 illustrations in colour

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