EdTech Annual Conference 2025
South East Technological University
Waterford, Ireland
May 29 & 30, 2025
Conference Agenda
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Research Papers, 4 Location: Room F03 'Ardmore' Session Chair: Cathal O'Riordan, South East Technological University | |
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11:35am - 11:55am
An analysis of student feedback and usage of StatsSkills, a web app for systematically practising statistics skills. 1: South East Technological University, Carlow Campus; 2: South East Technological University, Waterford Campus; 3: South East Technological University, Wexford Campus StatsSkills is an accessible, open-access web app through which learners systematically build statistics skills. StatsSkills contains exercises targeting specific skills, on which learners receive immediate, automated feedback, and through which they can track their progress to master specific areas and so increase their self-efficacy. During the academic year 2024-2025, StatsSkills was scaled to handle more learners and multiple groups with around 260 students using StatsSkills in three modules. In our presentation, we will briefly demonstrate StatsSkills, and then discuss findings from student focus groups, a student survey and usage data. Responses to the student survey sent in November 2024 indicated high levels of satisfaction with StatsSkills. Students praised the app as "simple, handy, and fun," valuing its accessibility and role in boosting their confidence with learning statistics. Early findings from the student focus groups in March 2025 reinforce the survey findings, with students also describing how using StatsSkills during class time kept them engaged and made learning statistics more enjoyable. Students also offered valuable suggestions for how to enhance StatsSkills for future learners including streamlining the process for accessing StatsSkills, increasing the variety and difficulty of exercises, and implementing analytics dashboards to allow learners to track their progress over time. | |

