Data & Instrumentation / Practice
Data instrumentation
Definition
The deliberate design and implementation of mechanisms that capture events, states, context, and other data needed to understand a learning system.
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If the right evidence is not instrumented at the source, later analytics cannot reconstruct it reliably.
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Sources and evidence
- LeBOK — 7.1 Data Instrumentation in the Learning Engineering Process (direct)
- IEEE ICICLE — Learning Engineering Process (supporting)
- Learning Engineering Design Decision Tracking — Introduction and Discussion; instrumentation and intent to collect future data; PDF pp. 2, 12, 14 (supporting)