Using the RAA Framework: Guiding Questions

Identify a course that you have taught in the past (one that contains student data), and plan to teach in the future: use your course site to explore tools and the learning data they make available. Make a copy of the Guiding Questions Links to an external site.and use it to document your own exploration of learning data in your course site, as well as the strategy that you will put in place next time you teach the course. 

Review

Review the Canvas learning data available to you. 

  • What question(s) do you have that learning data might address?
    • Consider, for instance, stumbling blocks  or pain points that you and your students experienced during the semester.
    • Maybe you haven't yet identified questions that will guide your work. In that case, consider, what are you curious about that learning data might provide insights into?
  • What learning data do you need access to? What tool will you use to access the relevant data?
  • What is the data?
  • What do you think the data means or explains?
  • What questions do you have at this point?

Amend 

Amend your understanding of the data you’ve gathered with student feedback to ensure accuracy. Start by outlining a strategy for getting information that you need from your students, whether the entire class or a sub-set of students.

  • What feedback could your students offer that would help you understand the data you've gathered?
  • What specific questions do you have for them?
  • How will you get this feedback? For instance, will you use an anonymous survey or another method? 
  • How does the student feedback help you understand and contextualize the learning data?
    • Does it corroborate or challenge your assumptions?
    • Do you have information you can act on or do you need to continue to gather information from your students?

Apply

Make a plan to apply good practices to modify your course based on learning data and student feedback.

  • What changes could you make that would impact student success?
  • Set priorities: if you were to commit to ONE change, what might it be?
    • You might decide that your priority is to implement one change that would be most impactful, or you might decide to start with low hanging fruit.
  • What is your timeline for implementing change?
  • Do you need support to create or implement your plans?
  • Ongoing, what 3 things might you do to make using learning data part of your teaching practice?