Do Learning Analytics Promote Schools as Learning Organisations? A Case Study of Latvia: Learning analytics for promoting school as a learning organization

The aim of this study is to evaluate the current practice of learning analytics in the implementation of the school as a learning organisation (henceforth SLO) in general and vocational education in Latvia. The study identifies what the most common purpose of data analysis in schools is, what data are most often used in schools to analyze students' learning performance and explores the relationship between the learning analytics and the SLO using the eight-dimensional SLO model developed within the framework of the research "A model and tool to support the implementation of the approach school as a learning organisation in educational institutions". The results of the study show that schools mainly analyze data to improve students' learning outcomes and less attention is paid to data analysis to adjust the curriculum to students' interests, and while students' summative assessments (e.g. grades) are regularly used to analyze students' learning performance, student focus group discussions on the learning process at school, the learning experience gained at school and improvements to be made are used less frequently. A positive and significant relationship was found between the learning analytics and the SLO, moreover, it was discovered that the closest relationship was observed particularly between the SLO and the more frequent use of student focus group discussions for the analysis of students' learning performance, and data analysis for adapting the learning content to students' interests as well as for improving students' collaboration.