Short academic bio
Theo Nelissen has a master’s degree in sociology and is a currently working as a senior advisor and researcher at Avans University of Applied Sciences. He has done practice based research since 2007 and co-founded the Institutional Research team at his institution. He has experience in qualitative and quantitative research as well as connecting research results to educational practice. In recent years his focus shifted from organization-oriented research to learning analytics and the use of study-data within his organization. With this PhD-proposal he wants to deepen his understanding of student learning while using study-data.
Current PhD project
When students are offered autonomy, self-regulation is important to learn effectively. Learning analytics offer new possibilities to formulate and deliver rich external feedback in support of SRL. But in educational environments where feedback is directly presented to students, students seem to lack the necessary competencies to make sense of the information presented. This research further explores how students use student-facing learning analytics for SRL and what competencies would be beneficial. A mixed-method approach will be used to design an intervention to support the use of student-facing learning analytics for SRL. At this moment a literature review is in progress.