ERIC Number: ED599234
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2019-Jul
Pages: 6
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Time-Series Insights into the Process of Passing or Failing Online University Courses Using Neural-Induced Interpretable Student States
Jeon, Byungsoo; Shafran, Eyal; Breitfeller, Luke; Levin, Jason; Rosé, Carolyn P.
International Educational Data Mining Society, Paper presented at the International Conference on Educational Data Mining (EDM) (12th, Montreal, Canada, Jul 2-5, 2019)
This paper addresses a key challenge in Educational Data Mining, namely to model student behavioral trajectories in order to provide a means for identifying students most at risk, with the goal of providing supportive interventions. While many forms of data including clickstream data or data from sensors have been used extensively in time series models for such purposes, in this paper we explore the use of textual data, which is sometimes available in the records of students at large, online universities. We propose a time series model that constructs an evolving student state representation using both clickstream data and a signal extracted from the textual notes recorded by human mentors assigned to each student. We explore how the addition of this textual data improves both the predictive power of student states for the purpose of identifying students at risk for course failure as well as for providing interpretable insights about student course engagement processes. [For the full proceedings, see ED599096.]
Descriptors: Online Courses, At Risk Students, Academic Achievement, Academic Failure, Data Analysis, Behavior Patterns, Intervention, Student Records, Universities, Models, Mentors, Computational Linguistics, Prediction, Learner Engagement, Notetaking, Student Behavior
International Educational Data Mining Society. e-mail: admin@educationaldatamining.org; Web site: http://www.educationaldatamining.org
Publication Type: Speeches/Meeting Papers; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
Sponsor: National Science Foundation (NSF)
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Grant or Contract Numbers: 1822831
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