Analysis of student performance and student participation in online discussions

Publication Type

Conference Proceeding Article

Publication Date

11-2016

Abstract

In recent years, a growing number of educational programs world-wide have adopted technology solutions in their classrooms. Usage of discussion forums, message boards, bulletin boards, polls, and other components of online learning is commonly seen in many classrooms. This study examines the relationship between student participation in online discussions and student performance in two undergraduate courses (one lower tier course and one upper tier course) and one graduate course (master’s level course) in an Information Systems school at a Singapore tertiary educational institution. In particular, this study examines student participation statistics such as participation frequency and reciprocity as indicators of future student performance including component grades and course grade. Further, we perform text mining on message content to derive insights about frequently discussed topics, etc. We built a system complementary to the university-wide Learning Management System (LMS) so that the new system can be easily configured via a web-based dashboard to pull and analyze different kinds of learning behavior data captured by the LMS

Keywords

online discussion, student performance, student participation

Discipline

Computer Engineering | Instructional Media Design

Research Areas

Data Science and Engineering

Publication

Proceedings of the 9th annual International Conference of Education, Research and Innovation, Seville, Spain, 2016 November 14-16

ISBN

9788461758951

Identifier

10.21125/iceri.2016

Publisher

IATED

City or Country

Seville, Spain

Additional URL

https://doi.org/10.21125/iceri.2016

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