CourseKata¶
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Evidence · 2 claims (2 for) · 1 study (1 associational),q2· 0 of 1 report an effect size · 2 claims rest on one study
Description¶
CourseKata is a non-profit online textbook platform that provides fully instrumented course materials with embedded assessments, coding activities, surveys, and learning-interaction data collection.
Components¶
- CourseKata fully instrumented online textbook platform: CourseKata is a non-profit education R&D platform whose online textbooks are "fully instrumented to yield data relevant to students' interactions, learning, and thinking as they progress through the course". It collects trace data via the enGauge tool, over 1,500 embedded auto-scored formative assessments and coding activities, and embedded self-report surveys, storing de-identified data in a warehouse outside institutional LMSs. (Alice Xu et al. (2026))
Claims¶
- Behavioral-only metrics from an instrumented online textbook support early prediction of final course grades in flipped statistics courses [+W]
- Predictive models built in a modelable ecosystem generalize across institutions [+W]
Related Products and Programmes¶
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Key Sources¶
- Alice Xu, Icy (Yunyi) Zhang, Adam B. Blake and James W. Stigler. (2026). Modelability as a Strategy for Improving the Generalizability and Scalability of Predictive Models. Journal of Learning Analytics, 13(1). https://doi.org/10.18608/jla.2026.9099
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CourseKata |
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CourseKata is a non-profit online textbook platform that provides fully instrumented course materials with embedded assessments, coding activities, surveys, and learning-interaction data collection. |
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by process:sweep-kinds on 2026-10-10 |
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1 — alice-xu-2026 |
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