Early description of a work in progress between ACT, UMBC, Blackboard and Vitalsource to investigate the relationship between social and emotional skills and learning analytics using machine and deep learning techniques. A few preliminary results.
2. Combine
data streams
Evidence-
Centered
Design
Feature
engineering
and learning
analytics
Building Insights
Insights
Guiding research questions
Can we observe student social and emotional skills (e.g. grit, leadership, curiosity) through
behaviors in online learning environments? Do these behaviors predict course outcomes? Are
these patterns consistent across student demographic & educational preparedness factors?
Questions? Ask John Whitmer (john.whitmer@act.org) or John Fritz (fritz@umbc.edu)
Findings:
Slightly above-average results on “resilience”, lower than average results in leadership and curiosity.
Grit scores for female students shifted to the right in the graph, which indicate higher scores for these students. Consistent with national findings.