LEA'S BOX

LEA's BOX is a 3-year research and development project (running from March 2014 to December 2016) funded by the European Commission. The project focussed on (a) making educational assessment and appraisal more goal-oriented, proactive, and beneficial for students, and (b) on enabling formative support of teachers and other educational stakeholders on a solid basis of a wide range of information about learners. That means, LEA's BOX offers a learning analytics toolbox that is intended to enable educators to perform competence-centred, multi-source learning analytics based... » As opposed to mere statistical approaches to Learning Analytics, Lea's Box offers qualitative analytics describing the set of competencies and skills the learners have and their individual learning paths through a learning domain instead of a numerical average value only. The solutions are based on well-elaborated psycho-pedagogical theories such as Competence-based Knowledge Space Theory (CbKST) and Formal..