Can You Put a Score On a Student’s ‘Agility’ or ‘Diligence’? A New Service Tries It
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Those are the deep questions raised by an announcement today by Cerego, a company which makes a software platform designed to let students review and quiz themselves on class materials to prepare for exams. The company’s latest feature, called Cerego Insights, promises to score each learner’s behavior in the system, rating how they compare to other users going through the same material. Jack Suess, vice president of information technology at the University of Maryland Baltimore County, sees promise in using data from learning software to help instructors improve courses, but he worries that educators “should be careful” when classifying students, even if such ranks aren’t used in grades. Smith Lewis argues that the tool is not concluding that agility or diligence are fixed traits of students, but simply measures of behavior in the specific context of a study session. He set up a demo for EdSurge, and I spent a few minutes at various points one day this week learning and reviewing material from a sociology course.
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