Curricular Analytics: A Framework for Quantifying the Impact of Curricular Reforms and Pedagogical Innovations

TL;DR

This paper introduces a framework called curricular analytics to quantify curriculum complexity and relate it to student success, aiding in evaluating reforms and pedagogical innovations.

Contribution

It presents a novel framework for measuring curricular complexity and demonstrates its application to assess the impact of reforms on student outcomes.

Findings

Curricular complexity can be quantified using structural and instructional properties.

Curricular analytics effectively relate curriculum design to student success.

The framework aids in evaluating pedagogical innovations and reforms.

Abstract

In this paper we articulate a framework for quantifying the complexity of curricula based on their fundamental structural and instructional properties. We then introduce the notion of curricular analytics as a means of relating curricular complexity to student success outcomes, and we demonstrate the usefulness of curricular analytics by applying them to a number of important problems.