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Publication Date: 2016
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An Ensemble Method to Predict Student Performance in an Online Math Learning Environment
Stapel, Martin; Zheng, Zhilin; Pinkwart, Niels
International Educational Data Mining Society, Paper presented at the International Conference on Educational Data Mining (EDM) (9th, Raleigh, NC, Jun 29-Jul 2, 2016)
The number of e-learning platforms and blended learning environments is continuously increasing and has sparked a lot of research around improvements of educational processes. Here, the ability to accurately predict student performance plays a vital role. Previous studies commonly focused on the construction of predictors tailored to a formal course. In this paper we relax this constraint, leveraging domain knowledge and combining a knowledge graph representation with activity scopes based on sets of didactically feasible learning objectives. Specialized scope classifiers are then combined to an ensemble to robustly predict student performance on learning objectives independently of the student's individual learning setting. The final ensemble's accuracy trumps any single classifier tested. [For the full proceedings, see ED592609.]
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Academic Achievement, Electronic Learning, Mathematics Instruction, Educational Environment, Accuracy, Predictor Variables, Concept Mapping, Graphs, Mathematical Concepts, Knowledge Representation, Information Retrieval, Foreign Countries, Data Processing
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Germany
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