STEM instructor-researchers rated the Journal Data Dashboard at or above WordStream Maker on every perceived ease-of-use and usefulness item (descriptive, n=10)¶

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q2 i? Across all ten participants, the Dashboard was rated at or above the Maker on every Likert item, with overall means of 3.94 versus 3.47. → Huyen N. Nguyen 2026

Evidence¶

Huyen N. Nguyen 2026¶

Huyen N. Nguyen, Kathleen A. Bowe, Minh-Huyen Nguyen, Kit Thompson, Caleb M. Trujillo. (2026). Through the WordStream Glass: Revisiting Quantitative Encoding for Qualitative Learning Analytics. arXiv preprint. https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.18692 doi:10.48550/arxiv.2606.18692

q2 · i? · associational · r1

Quantitative strand of a two-phase mixed-methods study in which ten STEM instructor-researchers rated both platforms on seven five-point Likert statements. The article reports the overall mean was 3.94 for the Dashboard and 3.47 for the Maker, and states "the small purposeful sample (n=10) precludes inferential statistics", so ratings are descriptive indicators only.

"Across all ten participants, the Dashboard was rated at or above the Maker on every Likert item. Table 2 reports per-item means derived directly from the study data"

Discussion¶

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• Seven of ten participants preferred the Dashboard, two preferred the Maker citing its side-by-side temporal display, and one was mixed — related