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Reading Lists @ Strathclyde (Staff): Statistics

Reading List Statistics - Understanding List Analysis

View this short video to learn more about the statistics being captured in the reading list software.

List Analysis allows you to gauge the effectiveness of a reading list. The data will provide a complete analysis of the number of views and total student activities such as viewing the full text citations, liking resources, commenting, and marking resources as read. 

Further information about the List Analysis button

The View lists analysis button list_analysis.png appears at the top of the My Lists page as well as the top of every reading list. 

List analysis button

 

 

 

 

 

 

  • If the button is selected from the My Lists page, the Reading List Analytics information will appear per list in place of the list descriptions.

  • If the button is selected from within a reading list, the Reading List Analytics information will appear per citation in place of the citation descriptions.

  • To return to the standard view of My Lists or the List View, select the button again or select the X at the right of the bottom status bar that appears while analysis is visible.

 

Display List Analysis

List analysis will display statistical information for the whole list.

Select Weekly Active Students to see a student usage graph over a period of time.

Display list analysis

 

Citation List Analysis

Citation analysis will display statistical information per citation.

Select Weekly Active Students to see a student usage graph over a period of time.

Citation list analysis

 

The color of the left border indicates student involvement: orange for 0-20%, colorless for 21-50%, or green for 51-100%.

Citation analysis colour bars

Display List Analysis headings:

  • Class Participants - The number of students that are enrolled in the class. Class size data updated each day from Pegasus info.

  • Active Students - The number of students who engaged with the list in any way.

  • Total Events - The total number of actions that students performed on this list (Selects, comments, likes, marked as read).

  • Average Events Per Student - An average number of activities on the list per student.

  • Number of Comments - The total number of comments on this list.

 

Citation List Analysis headings:
  • Active Students  - The number of students who engaged with the citation in any way.

  • Total Activities - The total number of actions that students performed on this item (Selects, comments, likes, marked as read).

  • Student Usage - Usage level, based on the number of students who actively engaged with this citation out of n participants in the class.

  • Students Full Text Views - The number of students who clicked on the link to an e-resource (either from the brief view or the full view of the citation). Multiple accesses by the same student count multiple times.

  • Students File Downloads - The number of students who downloaded the resource (multiple downloads by the same student count multiple times).

  • Students that Commented - The number of students who commented on the resource discussion.

  • Students Likes - The number of students who liked this item.

  • Students marked item as read - The number of students who marked this item as read.

Please note there is no exporting tool for List Analysis statistics

*new* Reading List Student Survey 2023

The results of the 2023 student survey:

Survey period: 24/02/2023 to 10/03/2023 (2 weeks)

Survey created and conducted by Strathclyde Librarianship student Ian Love. A summary of the survey results and Ian's report are available to view below.   

Contact the Reading List team if you wish to provide feedback. 

Email: lib.readinglists@strath.ac.uk

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