The Mediating Role of Learning Analytics to Improve Student Academic Performance

Abstract

Recent indicators of the success of every college graduate still refer to the cumulative academic achievement index. The era of disruption of the digitalization of education has posed different challenges and problems to universities to improve student academic performance. The objective of this study was to determine the extent of influences and relationships of antecedent factors, including soft skills and learning analytics, the intervening variables in improving this performance. This study engaged 203 active students taking courses in the fifth and sixth semesters of universities in Pontianak, West Kalimantan, Indonesia. The research was in the form of surveys. Questionnaires were distributed online through Google Form. SEM-PLS Method was conducted for the analysis. Results show strong influences and relationships between academic, emotional learning and soft skills through learning analytics in improving student academic performance. Furthermore, the negative influences of soft skills have insignificance on this performance. Lastly, a socio-economic factor is irrelevantly linked to learning analytics and student academic performance. All of these findings indicate that academic, personal, socio-economic antecedents are no longer relevant to previous research.