Leveraging Language Models for Analyzing Longitudinal Experiential Data in Education

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2503.21617v1
• Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2025 15:37:23 GMT
• Title: Leveraging Language Models for Analyzing Longitudinal Experiential Data in Education
• Authors: Ahatsham Hayat, Bilal Khan, Mohammad Rashedul Hasan,
• Abstract summary: We propose a novel approach to leveraging pre-trained language models (LMs) for early forecasting of academic trajectories in STEM students.<n>Key challenges in handling such data include high rates of missing values, limited dataset size due to costly data collection, and complex temporal variability across modalities.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: We propose a novel approach to leveraging pre-trained language models (LMs) for early forecasting of academic trajectories in STEM students using high-dimensional longitudinal experiential data. This data, which captures students' study-related activities, behaviors, and psychological states, offers valuable insights for forecasting-based interventions. Key challenges in handling such data include high rates of missing values, limited dataset size due to costly data collection, and complex temporal variability across modalities. Our approach addresses these issues through a comprehensive data enrichment process, integrating strategies for managing missing values, augmenting data, and embedding task-specific instructions and contextual cues to enhance the models' capacity for learning temporal patterns. Through extensive experiments on a curated student learning dataset, we evaluate both encoder-decoder and decoder-only LMs. While our findings show that LMs effectively integrate data across modalities and exhibit resilience to missing data, they primarily rely on high-level statistical patterns rather than demonstrating a deeper understanding of temporal dynamics. Furthermore, their ability to interpret explicit temporal information remains limited. This work advances educational data science by highlighting both the potential and limitations of LMs in modeling student trajectories for early intervention based on longitudinal experiential data.

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