"We are entering a new era of data and data responsibility," says Mitchell Stevens, an associate professor in Stanford University’s Graduate School of Education. "Are we acting responsibly as educators? What values are we trying to pursue and preserve?"
By the end of some students' first two weeks in a college course, an analytical model can determine with 75 percent accuracy rate how well they'll end up doing.
But should it?
Read the entire story online in Business Insider. A related story was published on the website of Inside Higher Education. Mitchell Stevens, associate professor of education, was one of the organizers of the Asilomar II conference. He attended the first Asilomar conference on use of data in higher education research and wrote an op-ed about the event, which was published online in Inside Higher Education in 2014.
