Effort Tracking - Research

The innovative process of measuring and using student effort to improve intrinsic motivation for learning as well as character growth has been developed by Robin Nagy over the past 8 years in Australia.

Please see the following video for a brief (1 minute 40 second) overview of Effort Tracking:

If you are interested in the research behind the project, please see the following articles, links and video for further information:

• "Tracking and visualising student effort: A practical analytics tool for student engagement" a 2017 Case Study research paper presented at the Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER) Excellence in Professional Practice Conference (EPPC) and receiving an outstanding session award.

• "Tracking and Visualizing Student Effort: Evolution of a Practical Analytics Tool for Staff and Student Engagement" a 2016 Practitioner Paper published in the Journal of Learning Analytics Special Section: Learning Analytics for 21st Century Competencies 3(2), 165–1933(2), 165–193.  http://dx.doi.org/10.18608/jla.2016.32.8

• In the following video from June 2016, Robin Nagy gives a 1 hour seminar at the University of Technology Sydney's (UTS') Connected Intelligence Centre (CiC) about the evolution of Student Effort Tracking: