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      <journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">RFDS</journal-id>
      <journal-title-group>
        <journal-title>Regional Formation and Development Studies</journal-title>
      </journal-title-group>
      <issn pub-type="epub">2351-6542</issn>
      <issn pub-type="ppub">2029-9370</issn>
      <publisher>
        <publisher-name>KU</publisher-name>
      </publisher>
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      <article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">07_SMITIENE</article-id>
      <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.15181/rfds.v44i3.2639</article-id>
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          <subject>Article</subject>
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        <article-title>Using Learning Analytics in Mathematics and Science Education Lessons: A Case Study from Lithuania</article-title>
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      <contrib-group>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Šmitienė</surname>
            <given-names>Gražina</given-names>
          </name>
          <email xlink:href="mailto:grazina.smitiene@ku.lt">grazina.smitiene@ku.lt</email>
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        </contrib>
        <aff id="j_RFDS_aff_000">Klaipėda University</aff>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Melnikova</surname>
            <given-names>Julija</given-names>
          </name>
          <email xlink:href="mailto:julija.melnikova@ku.lt">julija.melnikova@ku.lt</email>
          <xref ref-type="aff" rid="j_RFDS_aff_001"/>
        </contrib>
        <aff id="j_RFDS_aff_001">Klaipėda University</aff>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Batuchina</surname>
            <given-names>Aleksandra</given-names>
          </name>
          <email xlink:href="mailto:Aleksandra.batuchina@ku.lt">Aleksandra.batuchina@ku.lt</email>
          <xref ref-type="aff" rid="j_RFDS_aff_002"/>
        </contrib>
        <aff id="j_RFDS_aff_002">Klaipėda University</aff>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Šakytė-Statnickė</surname>
            <given-names>Gita</given-names>
          </name>
          <email xlink:href="mailto:g.statnicke@kvk.lt">g.statnicke@kvk.lt</email>
          <xref ref-type="aff" rid="j_RFDS_aff_003"/>
        </contrib>
        <aff id="j_RFDS_aff_003">Klaipėda University</aff>
      </contrib-group>
      <volume>44</volume>
      <issue>3</issue>
      <fpage>75</fpage>
      <lpage>86</lpage>
      <pub-date pub-type="epub">
        <day>25</day>
        <month>10</month>
        <year>2024</year>
      </pub-date>
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      <abstract>
        <p>Learning analytics is associated with wide opportunities for the organisation of individualised, differentiated and personalised learning.</p>
        <p>Moreover, the individualisation and personalisation of natural science and mathematics education are considered one of the</p>
        <p>priorities of Lithuanian education, in order to foster a culture of innovation in schools. The importance of integrated education is</p>
        <p>recognised for the sustainable improvement of the students’ competencies: problems in solving issues of the integrated organisation</p>
        <p>of natural sciences and mathematics in lessons, searching for the most appropriate didactic solutions, and so on. The usefulness of</p>
        <p>learning analytics is quite ambiguous: the search for tools for learning analytics, the system of its use, and definitions of benefits</p>
        <p>for the learner, are questions that require researchers’ attention. The current article is based on a qualitative study that particularly</p>
        <p>sought to disclose the possibility of using learning analytics in science and maths lessons. Focus group participants were teachers</p>
        <p>from general education schools in Lithuania. The aim of the focus group was to extract the accumulated experience of teachers in</p>
        <p>working with digital platforms and applying learning analytics based on artificial intelligence. The results of the study revealed that</p>
        <p>teachers have no doubt about the benefits of digital platforms integrating learning analytics based on artificial intelligence, in identifying</p>
        <p>student (class) learning gaps, and learning characteristics, and making data-based decisions regarding the differentiation and</p>
        <p>individualisation of learning. The research participants saw the importance of data generated by learning analytics in planning and</p>
        <p>organising integrated maths and science education lessons.</p>
      </abstract>
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        <label>Keywords</label>
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        <kwd>science education</kwd>
        <kwd>mathematics lessons</kwd>
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