ERIC Number: ED624073
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2022
Pages: 12
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Investigating Multimodal Predictors of Peer Satisfaction for Collaborative Coding in Middle School
Ma, Yingbo; Katuka, Gloria Ashiya; Celepkolu, Mehmet; Boyer, Kristy Elizabeth
International Educational Data Mining Society, Paper presented at the International Conference on Educational Data Mining (EDM) (15th, Durham, United Kingdom, Jul 24-27, 2022)
Collaborative learning is a complex process during which two or more learners exchange opinions, construct shared knowledge, and solve problems together. While engaging in this interactive process, learners' satisfaction toward their partners plays a crucial role in defining the success of the collaboration. If intelligent systems could predict peer satisfaction early during collaboration, they could intervene with adaptive support. However, while extensive studies have associated peer satisfaction with factors such as social presence, communication, and trustworthiness, there is no research on automatically predicting learners' satisfaction toward their partners. To fill this gap, this paper investigates the automatic prediction of peer satisfaction by analyzing 44 middle school learners' interactions during collaborative coding tasks. We extracted three types of features from dialogues: (1) linguistic features indicating semantics; (2) acoustic-prosodic features including energy and pitch; and (3) visual features including eye gaze, head pose, facial behaviors, and body pose. We then trained several regression models to predict the peer satisfaction scores that learners received from their partners. The results revealed that head position and body location were significant indicators of peer satisfaction: lower head and body distances between partners were associated with more positive peer satisfaction. This work is the first to investigate the multimodal prediction of peer satisfaction during collaborative problem solving, and represents a step toward the development of real-time intelligent systems that support collaborative learning. [For the full proceedings, see ED623995.]
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Cooperative Learning, Prediction, Peer Relationship, Scores, Coding, Computer Science Education, Student Attitudes, Task Analysis, Semantics, Dialogs (Language), Discourse Analysis, Eye Movements, Acoustics, Intonation, Suprasegmentals, Nonverbal Communication, Problem Solving, Programming, Programming Languages, Grade 7
International Educational Data Mining Society. e-mail: admin@educationaldatamining.org; Web site: https://educationaldatamining.org/conferences/
Publication Type: Speeches/Meeting Papers; Reports - Research
Education Level: Junior High Schools; Middle Schools; Secondary Education; Elementary Education; Grade 7
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Language: English
Sponsor: National Science Foundation (NSF)
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Grant or Contract Numbers: DRL1640141