https://www.edsurge.com/n/2015-07-13-3-ways-educational-technology-tools-predict-student-success
One of the goals of academic assessment is to identify which students need help; the sooner they can be identified, the better. The promise of technology has been that its ability to collect unique data could make this process timelier, more accurate, and less burdensome.
But how might technology actually go about fulfilling this promise? Thus far, academic research suggests that technological tools can predict outcomes by collecting or analyzing data according to the following three different categories.