Learning Analytics: Meeting the Needs of Students and Teachers in Pre-tertiary Education

The aim of learning analytics is to use available data from different systems and data bases in order to support students and teachers in learning and teaching processes. In order to ensure that main groups of users get what they need the most by using learning analytics, there is an imperative to develop feasible needs analysis methodology as well as to perform the needs analysis according to it. There are far less research and prediction about the role and implementation of learning analytics in pretertiary education (schools) than in higher education. The research presented in this paper was performed in primary and secondary schools in Croatia. Final results are presented in form of most relevant questions posed by students and teachers that learning analytics system supposed to answer.

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