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LASER Orientation Module

In the scatter plot above, each point indicates the amount of time a student spent and their percentage of total points earned on assignments, which here is used as a close approximation of their final grade.

Course Grades & Time Spent

Dr. Shaun Kellogg and team will provide an overview of the NSF-funded Learning Analytics in STEM Education Research (LASER) Institute aimed at developing the research capacity of early- and mid-career scholars. The LASER Team will share lessons learned from shifting to a fully virtual professional development format, including building capacity for computational research methodologies using cloud-based platforms and fostering virtual research networks/communities.

For each of five online STEM courses offered by the statewide virtual public school from which this data was collected, there is a positive relationship between the amount of time students spent and their course grade, as indicated by the smoothing line for each scatter plot. However, there also appears to be diminishing returns of course grade after roughly 25~30 hours, where invested time does not necessarily correspond to higher course grades.