Combining Key Performance Indicators and Signs of Changes in Students to improve the quality of education in Institutional Research based on Eduinformatics

Abstract

In recent years, most Japanese universities have started to operate departments of institutional research (IR). In IR fields, Key Performance Indicator (KPI) is important to evaluate the quality of education. Eduinformatics, a novel interdisciplinary field proposed by us, provides good analyses that will help us to solve educational problems. This paper emphasizes that we have to consider whether the evaluation of KPIs is the best method to check the quality of education in universities. We discuss the problem of evaluating KPIs to check the quality of higher education and suggest that we have to recognize and understand the limitations of evaluating KPIs. We propose that it is better to evaluate the combination of both KPIs and signs of changes in students to improve the quality of education.

Preliminary Analysis of Self-Confidence Labels of Second Language Utterances in an Online Assignment to Develop a Learning System With Feedback Adaptation

“…The differences between the standard values could be influenced by learners' over-or underestimation. For example, [26], who investigated changes in learners' self-esteem in certain lectures, has suggested that the learners were affected positive bias [27] or negative bias [28]. It is difficult to discuss this hypothesis from the limited number of participants, but we should have this perspective for future analysis.…”