Preliminary study of browsing practices in a computer learning environment and measurement of educational effectiveness

Carried out within an experiment aiming to evaluate the opportunity to introduce learning objects in undergraduate Statistics training, the present research investigated the relationship between students' use of learning resources in an online learning environment. Students' navigation patterns provide a rich source of pedagogical information about the learning process they enforced. Results show that the analysis of navigation patterns conceals information with learning range far more interesting, such as the definition of online training strategies and the measure of their learning efficiency. There seems to be a relation between the use intensity of the environment resources and the marks obtained by students.