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Abstract
In order to enhance the experience of learning, many educators applied learning analytics in a classroom, the major principle of learning analytics is targeting at-risk student and given timely intervention according to the results of student behavior analysis. However, when researchers applied machine learning to train a risk identifying model, the reason which affected the performance of the model was overlooked. This study collected seven datasets within three universities located in Taiwan and Japan and listed performance metrics of risk identification model after fed data into eight classification methods. U1, U2, and U3 were used to denote the three universities, which have three, two, and two cases of datasets (learning logs), respectively. According to the results of this study, the factors influencing the predictive performance of classification methods are the number of significant features, the number of categories of significant features, and Spearman correlation coefficient values. In U1 dataset case 1.3 and U2 dataset case 2.2, the numbers of significant features, numbers of categories of significant features, and Spearman correlation coefficient values for significant features were all relatively high, which is the main reason why these datasets were able to perform classification with high predictive ability.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 206-230 |
Number of pages | 25 |
Journal | Interactive Learning Environments |
Volume | 28 |
Issue number | 2 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 17 Feb 2020 |
Keywords
- Educational big data
- academic performance
- classification methods
- learning analytics
- learning logs
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The Research of Applying Big Data to Improving Moocs Learning Analytics:An Empirical Study of College Calculus(3/3)
Yang, S. J. H. (PI)
1/08/19 → 31/07/20
Project: Research
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Subproject 1: Applying Big Data Technique to Moocs Learners’ Course Video Analytics and Adaptive Course Material Recommendation(3/3)
Yang, S. J. H. (PI)
1/08/18 → 31/07/19
Project: Research
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Applying Big Data to Learning Analytics: the Development of Institutional Research System
Yang, S. J. H. (PI)
1/11/16 → 31/10/17
Project: Research