Identifying Critical LMS Features for Predicting At-risk Students
Learning management systems (LMSs) have become essential in higher education and play an important role in helping educational institutions to promote student success. Traditionally, LMSs have been used by postsecondary institutions in administration, reporting, and delivery of educational content. In this paper, we present an additional use of LMS by using its data logs to perform data-analytics and identify academically at-risk students. The data-driven insights would allow educational institutions and educators to develop and implement pedagogical interventions targeting academically at-risk students. We used anonymized data logs created by Brightspace LMS during fall 2019, spring 2020, and fall 2020 semesters at our college. Supervised machine learning algorithms were used to predict the final course performance of students, and several algorithms were found to perform well with accuracy above 90%. SHAP value method was used to assess the relative importance of features used in the predictive models. Unsupervised learning was also used to group students into different clusters based on the similarities in their interaction/involvement with LMS. In both of supervised and unsupervised learning, we identified two most-important features (Number_Of_Assignment_Submissions and Content_Completed). More importantly, our study lays a foundation and provides a framework for developing a real-time data analytics metric that may be incorporated into a LMS.
Code (0)
등록된 구현이 없습니다.
Tasks
ManagementMethods 이 논문이 사용한 방법론
Similar Papers 제목 키워드 기반
Early Detection of At-Risk Students Using Machine Learning
This research presents preliminary work to address the challenge of identifying at-risk students using supervised machine learning and three unique data categories: engagement, demographics, and performance data collecte…
Binary ClassificationStudent dropoutIdentifying At-Risk K-12 Students in Multimodal Online Environments: A Machine Learning Approach
With the rapid emergence of K-12 online learning platforms, a new era of education has been opened up. It is crucial to have a dropout warning framework to preemptively identify K-12 students who are at risk of dropping …
BIG-bench Machine LearningKnowledge Distillation in RNN-Attention Models for Early Prediction of Student Performance
Educational data mining (EDM) is a part of applied computing that focuses on automatically analyzing data from learning contexts. Early prediction for identifying at-risk students is a crucial and widely researched topic…
Knowledge DistillationStudent dropoutTransfer LearningEPARS: Early Prediction of At-risk Students with Online and Offline Learning Behaviors
Early prediction of students at risk (STAR) is an effective and significant means to provide timely intervention for dropout and suicide. Existing works mostly rely on either online or offline learning behaviors which ar…
ManagementNetwork EmbeddingVehicle-group-based Crash Risk Prediction and Interpretation on Highways
Previous studies in predicting crash risks primarily associated the number or likelihood of crashes on a road segment with traffic parameters or geometric characteristics, usually neglecting the impact of vehicles' conti…
Autonomous VehiclesGraph Neural Network