ERIC Number: ED593115
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2018-Jul
Pages: 10
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Predicting Quitting in Students Playing a Learning Game
Karumbaiah, Shamya; Baker, Ryan S.; Shute, Valerie
International Educational Data Mining Society, Paper presented at the International Conference on Educational Data Mining (EDM) (11th, Raleigh, NC, Jul 16-20, 2018)
Identifying struggling students in real-time provides a virtual learning environment with an opportunity to intervene meaningfully with supports aimed at improving student learning and engagement. In this paper, we present a detailed analysis of quit prediction modeling in students playing a learning game called Physics Playground. From the interaction log data of the game, we engineered a comprehensive set of aggregated features of varying levels of granularity and trained individualized level-specific models and a single level-agnostic model. Contrary to our initial expectation, our results suggest that a level-agnostic model achieves superior predictive performance. We enhanced this model further with level-related and student-related features, leading to a moderate increase in AUC. Visualizing this model, we observe that it is based on high-level intuitive features that are generalizable across levels. This model can now be used in future work to automatically trigger cognitive and affective supports to motivate students to pursue a game level until completion. [For the full proceedings, see ED593090.]
Descriptors: Predictor Variables, Academic Persistence, Educational Games, Play, Learner Engagement, Physics, Science Education, Secondary School Students, Secondary School Science, Grade 8, Grade 9, Prediction, Models
International Educational Data Mining Society. e-mail: admin@educationaldatamining.org; Web site: http://www.educationaldatamining.org
Publication Type: Speeches/Meeting Papers; Reports - Research
Education Level: Secondary Education; Grade 8; Junior High Schools; Middle Schools; Elementary Education; Grade 9; High Schools
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Language: English
Sponsor: Institute of Education Sciences (ED)
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IES Funded: Yes
Grant or Contract Numbers: R305A170376