A Deep Learning Approach to Behavior-Based Learner Modeling

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2001.08328v1
• Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2020 01:26:52 GMT
• Title: A Deep Learning Approach to Behavior-Based Learner Modeling
• Authors: Yuwei Tu, Weiyu Chen, Christopher G. Brinton
• Abstract summary: We study learner outcome predictions, i.e., predictions of how they will perform at the end of a course. We propose a novel Two Branch Decision Network for performance prediction that incorporates two important factors: how learners progress through the course and how the content progresses through the course. Our proposed algorithm achieves 95.7% accuracy and 0.958 AUC score, which outperforms all other models.
• Score: 11.899303239960412
• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: The increasing popularity of e-learning has created demand for improving online education through techniques such as predictive analytics and content recommendations. In this paper, we study learner outcome predictions, i.e., predictions of how they will perform at the end of a course. We propose a novel Two Branch Decision Network for performance prediction that incorporates two important factors: how learners progress through the course and how the content progresses through the course. We combine clickstream features which log every action the learner takes while learning, and textual features which are generated through pre-trained GloVe word embeddings. To assess the performance of our proposed network, we collect data from a short online course designed for corporate training and evaluate both neural network and non-neural network based algorithms on it. Our proposed algorithm achieves 95.7% accuracy and 0.958 AUC score, which outperforms all other models. The results also indicate the combination of behavior features and text features are more predictive than behavior features only and neural network models are powerful in capturing the joint relationship between user behavior and course content.

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