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PREDICTIVE ANALYTICSfor education
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Challenges facing online education
Students learn in digital Islands
Online learners learn in digital islands
Even though there is scope for group interaction(wiki, forum) but is limited unlike in a physical classroom. Also you cannot discuss some of the novel ideas Students may get
Feedback
The strength of Online education is to reach out and teach a bigger audience but on the flip side there is no single way that a teacher can reach out to a Single Student and give the required feedback on his performance
Tutor's Blindspot
Tutors can assess the difficulty of a subject in different ways and may not be aware of the Students' struggles in a particular course
Procrastination
Since it is On-line learning there is a tendency for Students to delay in finishing the course/assignments
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Overview
With Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) such as Coursera, FutureLearn or any other Online learning platform becoming the new way OF learning, there is an urgent need for Universities to identify the Students At-Risk of dropouts or failures from courses so that timely intervention can bring these Students back on the right track.
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Students at Risk – A case study
Featured as one of the Top 4 case studies at NASSCOM Tech series on Analytics 2017
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Students at Risk – A case study
Business Problem
To predict at-risk students within a course so
that pro-active steps could be taken to avoid
drop-outs/failures
Benefits
Students would successfully complete the courses and score better marks too.
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Data Processing …
The below figure shows the typical processes of Data analysis of a Dataset.
Receive the Datasets (.csv)
Process the Datasetsfor Analysis
Analyse the DatasetsBuild the Model
Visualize the Analysed data
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Data Processing …
The data was received as a set of .csv files which gave the complete details. The processing of the data included the following activities:
• uploading .csv files to Postgresql
• Created joins, tables, views to aggregate the data
• The result was refined datasets
The refined datasets are passed on to Data Analysis team for analysis
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Predictive Analysis Process
Identify theSuitable Algorithm
Visualize
Build themodel
Evaluate/Deploythe model
Monitor/Refactorthe model
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Datasets
30%
70%
Train Test
The refined datasets are divided into train and test datasets in order to build the Model
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Tools and Technology
R
Postgresql
ACL UI Framework
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About the Dataset
The Dataset had a sample of
Courses offered in the month of February and October of 2013 and 2014
A total of 8 courses/Modules were offered
Total number of students – 323K in 2013 and 250K in 2014
The data mainly consisted of
Demographic Data:
gender,age,region,highest education …etc
Online activities-related Data:
OLE(Online Learning Environment), Student Assessment (tests,score,) etc.
Aggregated OLE data available daily.
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Approach
Revalidating the model 2 –assessment angle (Conditional probability)
Results are based on Assessment type
At-Risk
Not at Risk
Bayesian stats
(assessment)
At-Risk
Not at Risk
M3- Model based
on Clustering –
based on OLE data
At-Risk
Not at Risk
M2 – Model2
based in Demo+
OLE
M1 - Model1
based on
demographics
Model 1 - Demographics
Student enrols to various courses in a given semester. Since no online data is available in the beginning the model is built on the demographics data only. This is just the first sneak-peek.
Model 2 – Demographic + OLE (Online Learning Environment)
After the completion of Week 0, the system start capturing the online activities of the Students starts predicting the Risk from week 1.As an extra step, the output of the Model 2 is further assessed based on assessment type.
Model 3 – using clustering techniques
The OLE data is fed and then analysed as a clustering technique based on the online activities of a student
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Model 1 – based on Demographics
The 9 predictors considered are mainly based on demographics and few parameters like number of previous attempts etc..
The Decision Tree algorithm gave an accuracy of 50%
Model
Decision Tree for Demographic Data 51.70% 64.90% 18.50%
Accuracy Precision Recall
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Model 2 – based on Demographics + OLE (online learning
The 8 more predictors are mainly focussed on the data on Students online activities/tasks etc..
Model
Decision Tree for Demographic+OLE 96.00% 97.20% 95.64%
Accuracy Precision Recall
As an extra step, we are passing the output of the model 2 and is viewed with assessment angle.
Assessment by Tutor (TMA), Assessment by Computer(online assessment), Final Exam using Baye’s
rule
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Model 2 – Output of model 2 is passed through Bayes rule
Assessments - 2013
Total number of students: 323419
Pass or distinction: 276897
Fail or withdrawn: 46522
Prior Probabilities:
P(at risk) = 0.144 , P(not at risk) = 0.856
After TMA (Baye's rule)
P(AT-Risk|Model_at_risk) = 0.97, P(NOT-Risk | Model_at_risk) =
0.03
P(AT-Risk|Model_not_at_risk) = 0.15,P(NOT-
Risk|Model_not_at_risk) = 0.98
97% students who fail at TMA (Tutor marked assessment) fail in
2013
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Model 2 – Output of model 2 is passed through Bayes rule
Assessments - 2014
Total number of students: 250065
Pass or distinction: 173959
Fail or withdrawn: 76106
Prior Probabilities:
-P(at risk) = 0.303 , P(not at risk) = 0.696
After TMA (Baye's rule)
P(AT-Risk|Model_at_risk) = 0.97, P(NOT-Risk |
Model_at_risk) = 0.03
P(AT-Risk | Model_not_at_risk) = 0.15, P(NOT-
Risk|Model_not_at_risk) = 0.98
97% students who fail at TMA fail in 2014
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Model 2 – Output of model 2 is passed through Bayes rule
Assessments - 2014
The model 3 data is built on the online learning data (OLE) activities per week.
Using Clustering Students at Risk and Not at Risk are grouped.
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Model 3 – Clustering view Students at Risk
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Model 3 – Clustering view of Students at Not risk
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Final risk – calculated based on the sum of all the three models
0 - Not at Risk1 - At Risk
If the sum is =>2 the UI alerts are generated
Sum of all the
3 results
Model 1 Model 2 Model 3
0/1
0/10/1
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UI –Dashboard/Alerts – Student view
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UI - Dashboard/Alerts - Tutor’s Input
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Conclusions – Clear indicators
88% of the students who were involved in the forum activities are not at risk
Courses D and F in 2013 and 2014 have a higher of percentage of Students At Risk.
5% of the Students who were active in the quiz, sub content were at Risk.
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Conclusions – Interesting revelations …
Students who have completed degree program also have a higher chance of not
completing the exams falling under Students-At risk. They enrol just for Knowledge
purposes.
Assessment type(Tutor, Computer) stood out as an important factor. Students were at
high risk for the tutor monitored assessment type.
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Summary
Identifying or alerting the faculty on the students who are at-risk
Helping Students to perform better by giving out recommendations
Completing the courses and thus guiding the students
Overall increasing the revenues
Helping in provide a good feedback on the courses/faculty
Improving methods in teaching/add pre-requisites
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