Modeling E-Behaviour, Personality and Academic Performance with Machine Learning

Abstract

The analysis of student performance involves data modelling that enables the formulation of hypotheses and insights about student behaviour and personality. We extract online behaviours as proxies to Extraversion and Conscientiousness, which have been proven to correlate with academic performance. The proxies of personalities we obtain yield significant (p<0.05) population correlation coefficients for traits against grade—0.846 for Extraversion and 0.319 for Conscientiousness. Furthermore, we demonstrate that a student’s e-behaviour and personality can be used with deep learning (LSTM) to predict and forecast whether a student is at risk of failing the year. Machine learning procedures followed in this report provide a methodology to timeously identify students who are likely to become at risk of poor academic performance. Using engineered online behaviour and personality features, we obtain a classification accuracy (κ) of students at risk of 0.51. Lastly, we show that we can design an intervention process using machine learning that supplements the existing performance analysis and intervention methods. The methodology presented in this article provides metrics that measure the factors that affect student performance and complement the existing performance evaluation and intervention systems in education.

Research and Application of a User Academic Profile Analysis Platform Based on AHP-EW

“…AHP breaks down the problem into distinct factors and arranges them according to their effects and membership relationships, resulting in a multi-level structural analysis model. To ascertain the importance of each factor, pairwise comparisons of factors within the same level are made, and this assessment is propagated up the hierarchy to ultimately obtain indicator weights at each level 14 . The advantage of AHP is that it enables mathematical and conceptual representation of human subjective judgments by combining qualitative and quantitative methods to address complex problems 15 .…”