Toward the Application of Japanese Candlesticks for Visual Analysis of Student Academic Performance

The continuously developing education system requires teachers to make innovative solutions in teaching, including the issue of analyzing the results of students’ performance. To discover the effectiveness of learning activity it is necessary to track and record the results of learning activity, to choose a suitable toolkit for these purposes among the variety of analysis methods. The ability to interpret and visualize the results of students’ performance is one of the main tasks of a university teacher. This paper attempts to visualize the analysis of student performance results using Japanese candlesticks, which can be used not only in finance and economics, but also in education. Japanese candlestick analysis is fully informative, visual and accessible, thanks to which it is possible to make individual diagnostics of positive or negative changes in students’ performance, to consider their individual potentials, to see ups and downs, to formulate possible reasons for obtaining certain scores, and in accordance with this to adjust the educational process, to build individual educational trajectories. Visualization of students’ performance results, which is provided by means of candlestick chart analysis, positively affects both self-organization, self-determination and motivation of students, and the work of the teacher from the methodological point of view. In this paper, candlestick charts were made for two students who were able to clearly visualize their performance results for further research into the patterns and features of learning activity of both a particular student and the educational process as a whole. #CSOC1120.