Predicting High-Risk Students Using Learning Behavior

Abstract

Over the past few years, the growing popularity of online education has enabled there to be a large amount of students’ learning behavior data stored, which brings great opportunities and challenges to the field of educational data mining. Students’ learning performance can be predicted, based on students’ learning behavior data, so as to identify at-risk students who need timely help to complete their studies and improve students’ learning performance and online teaching quality. In order to make full use of these learning behavior data, a new prediction method was designed based on existing research. This method constructs a hybrid deep learning model, which can simultaneously obtain the temporal behavior information and the overall behavior information from the learning behavior data, so that it can more accurately predict the high-risk students. When compared with existing deep learning methods, the experimental results show that the proposed method offers better predicting performance.

Keywords

• learning behavior
• student performance prediction
• deep neural network (DNN)
• recurrent neural network (RNN)
• educational data mining (EDM)