Multi-Class Adaptive Active Learning for Predicting Student Anxiety

Abstract

This research delves into applying active and machine learning techniques to predict student anxiety. This research explores how these technologies can be explored to understand and predict student anxiety levels. This study utilizes active learning strategies to increase the effectiveness of machine learning models in predicting anxiety levels among students. Additionally, this adaptation emphasizes the usefulness of active learning methodologies in enhancing the precision of machine learning models for student anxiety prediction. This study uses two datasets containing information on student behavior and leverages machine learning methods to construct predictive models for student anxiety. This study uses various machine learning models: K-Nearest Neighbors (KNN), Logistic Regression (LR), XGBoost (XGB), Naive Bayes (NB), and Random Forest (RF). Experiments revealed that active learning-based LR yielded a score of 0.61, and RF performed well with an average accuracy of 0.60 on the first dataset. Similarly, for the second dataset, RF is the most effective model, achieving an accuracy of 0.83. These results provide valuable insights into the models’ performance across key metrics. Further, this research highlights the potential of employing machine learning techniques and active learning methodologies to predict and manage student anxiety.

Keywords

• Active learning
• student anxiety
• student wellbeing
• inclusive education
• machine learning
• deep learning