Beyond the average: person-specific analytics for precision education

[EN]Educational research has traditionally relied on group-level analyses to identify patterns across learners. While valuable for detecting general trends, such approaches often provide limited insight into how learning processes unfold within individuals. This introduction to person-specific analy...

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Autores: Hernández García, Ángel, Conde, Miguel Ángel
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión enviada para evaluación y publicación
Fecha de publicación:2025
País:España
Institución:Universidad de Salamanca (USAL)
Repositorio:GREDOS. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Salamanca
OAI Identifier:oai:gredos.usal.es:10366/165840
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10366/165840
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Person-specific analytics
Idiographic methods
Learning analytics
Precision education
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Sumario:[EN]Educational research has traditionally relied on group-level analyses to identify patterns across learners. While valuable for detecting general trends, such approaches often provide limited insight into how learning processes unfold within individuals. This introduction to person-specific analytics presents recent methodological and conceptual developments that address this gap, including intensive longitudinal designs, idiographic modeling, and person-specific machine learning. The contributing articles examine how individual trajectories in motivation, self-regulation, collaboration, and cognitive development can be studied more accurately when variability is treated as a central feature rather than as noise. Together, the contributions highlight how person-specific methods can complement traditional approaches by enabling more precise, adaptive, and context-sensitive educational practices.