Decoding the Dashboard: Data Comics to Support Students' Understanding of Learning Analytics Visualisations

2026-09-17

AI Summary

研究通过数据漫画辅助学习分析仪表板，帮助学生理解复杂的数据可视化，提高其可读性和吸引力，从而支持学生自我探索和决策。

Abstract

Learning analytics dashboards (LADs) are intended to help students make sense of their learning data to support reflection and decision-making. However, their visualisations can be complex, particularly for students with low visualisation literacy. Narrative techniques, such as annotated charts and data comics, have been used to communicate insights directly, but not as supplementary materials to empower students to explore their visualisations themselves. In response, we conducted a qualitative study examining how data comics can complement LADs. We interviewed 18 nursing students and 4 of their teachers about a multimodal LAD containing visualisations with data comics explaining them. Analysis showed that data comics were clear, engaging, and helped make complex visualisations more accessible, though they must be carefully designed to avoid overwhelming students with information. The findings suggest that both students and teachers are receptive to data comics as a means of supporting the interpretability of LADs.

Problem

• Learning Analytics Dashboards
• Visualization Literacy
• Data Comics

Innovation

• data comics
• learning analytics dashboards
• visualization literacy
• narrative techniques