Education Team/Quest for Data

This page collects information from various stakeholders in the OLPC Sugar community to determine which statistical data are important to gather and how to analyze an visualize the data to in a meaningful way. These stakeholders are

• teachers
• parents and guardians
• principals and school administrators
• deployment organizations
• educational policymakers
• children

Deployments

OLE Nepal

These are the basic questions answered in the first stage of xo-stats project.

Note: These will evolve over time as I receive more feedback from constituencies enumerated above.

• How many times do installed activities get used? How does the activity use differ over time?
• Which activities are children using to create files? What kind of files are being created?
• Which activities are being launched in share-mode and how often?
• Which part of the day do children play with the activities?
• How does the set of activities used evolve as children age?

OLPC AU

The Harvest system is being used to gather some basic stats; A visualization tool will be developed to enable stakeholders (funders, administrators, and classroom teachers) to monitor these data.

References

• See this discussion list thread, The quest for data, begun on 02 January 2014.