The Norwegian Education Mirror 2022
Learning analysis
When pupils use teaching aids, a lot of data is produced about the way they use those teaching aids. This data is produced when e.g. a pupil answers an individual assignment or writes longer answers in word processing programs. This data can be analysed using artificial intelligence, so that pupils receive feedback on both a word and sentence level. The great breadth of pupils' digital activity makes it possible to work with learning analysis at different levels. Interest in learning analysis has been high for many years, and many teaching aid manufacturers have emphasised developing software for adaptive learning.
In October 2021, an expert group was set up to give the authorities a better basis for making decisions regarding digital learning analysis and the use of adaptive teaching aids. The expert group will, among other things, examine how learning analysis affects learning, as well as the challenges and potential of learning analysis.
In their first preliminary report, the expert group asks "if current digital teaching aids, resources that use learning analysis and the digital teaching practice in Norwegian education all generate sufficient data to provide meaningful analysis that can support variations in teaching and learning as a social activity" (Ministry of Education and Research 2022, p. 75). The expert group also calls for more knowledge about how pupils use software based on artificial intelligence in Norwegian schools.
Learning analysis
«Learning analysis covers the registration, collection, analysis and reporting of data about pupils with the aim of understanding and improving the learning process and the social environment in which learning takes place.» (Dahl 2015, p. 2)