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Utilizing Student Time Series Behaviour in Learning Management Systems for Early Prediction of Course Performance

2020· article· en· 96 citations· W3087431152 on OpenAlex· 10.18608/jla.2020.72.1

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Full frame distilled prediction

Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

Candidate categories
none
Consensus categories
none
Domain
Candidate signal: noneConsensus signal: none
Study design
Candidate signal: Simulation or modelingConsensus signal: Simulation or modeling
Genre
Candidate signal: EmpiricalConsensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score
0.370
Threshold uncertainty score
0.638
Validation status
machine_predicted_unvalidated · codex-gemma-dda1882f352a

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.001
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Opus teacher head0.020
GPT teacher head0.276
Teacher spread
0.256 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation status
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Abstract

Predictive analytics in higher education has become increasingly popular in recent years with the growing availability of educational big data. Particularly, a wealth of student activity data is available from learning management systems (LMSs) in most academic institutions. However, previous investigations into predictive analytics in higher education using LMS activity data did not adequately accommodate student behaviours in the form of time series. In this study, we have applied a deep learning approach — long short-term memory (LSTM) networks — to analyze student online temporal behaviours using their LMS data for the early prediction of course performance. To reveal the potential of the deep learning approach in predictive analytics, we compared LSTM networks with eight conventional machine learning classifiers in terms of the prediction performance as measured by the area under the ROC (receiver operating characteristic) curve (AUC) scores. Results indicate that using the deep learning approach, time series information about click frequencies successfully provided early detection of at-risk students with moderate prediction accuracy. In addition, the deep learning approach showed higher prediction performance and stronger generalizability than the machine learning classifiers.

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The record

Venue
Journal of Learning Analytics
Topic
Online Learning and Analytics
Field
Computer Science
Canadian institutions
University of Alberta
Funders
University of Alberta
Keywords
Learning analyticsGeneralizability theoryMachine learningArtificial intelligenceComputer scienceLearning ManagementTime seriesPredictive analyticsDeep learningAnalyticsEducational data miningReceiver operating characteristicPredictive modellingBig dataData scienceData miningMultimediaStatistics
Has abstract in OpenAlex
yes