Academic Journal

End-User Needs of Fragmented Databases in Higher Education Data Analysis and Decision Making

التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
العنوان: End-User Needs of Fragmented Databases in Higher Education Data Analysis and Decision Making
المؤلفون: Briggs, Amanda, Cafaro, Francesco
المساهمون: Human-Centered Computing, Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering
المصدر: Publisher
بيانات النشر: MDPI
سنة النشر: 2021
المجموعة: Indiana University - Purdue University Indianapolis: IUPUI Scholar Works
مصطلحات موضوعية: Data analysis, Higher education, Human-computer interaction, Human-data interaction, Large datasets, User interface design
الوصف: In higher education, a wealth of data is available to advisors, recruiters, marketers, and program directors. These large datasets can be accessed using an array of data analysis tools that may lead users to assume that data sources conflict with one another. As users identify new ways of accessing and analyzing these data, they deviate from existing work practices and sometimes create their own databases. This study investigated the needs of end users who are accessing these seemingly fragmented databases. Analysis of a survey completed by eighteen users and ten semi-structured interviews from five colleges and universities highlighted three recurring themes that affect work practices (access, understandability, and use), as well as a series of challenges and opportunities for the design of data gateways for higher education. We discuss a set of broadly applicable design recommendations and five design functionalities that the data gateways should support: training, collaboration, tracking, definitions and roadblocks, and time
نوع الوثيقة: article in journal/newspaper
وصف الملف: application/pdf
اللغة: English
Relation: Informatics; https://hdl.handle.net/1805/39750
الاتاحة: https://hdl.handle.net/1805/39750
Rights: Attribution 4.0 International ; http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
رقم الانضمام: edsbas.C8243913
قاعدة البيانات: BASE