Through the WordStream Glass: Revisiting Quantitative Encoding for Qualitative Learning Analytics (opens in new tab)

Data-driven learning analytics can surface trends across a student cohort over time, helping instructors improve the learning environment. WordStream, a visualization idiom for topic evolution, has been instantiated in two platforms toward this goal: the Journal Data Dashboard, for analyzing formative assessments, and WordStream Maker, for authoring custom visualizations. Where the prior work built these platforms for education (Vis4Ed), here we...