Predicting Cognitive Engagement in Online Course Discussion Forums

التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
العنوان: Predicting Cognitive Engagement in Online Course Discussion Forums
اللغة: English
المؤلفون: Gorgun, Guher, Yildirim-Erbasli, Seyma N., Epp, Carrie Demmans
المصدر: International Educational Data Mining Society. 2022.
الإتاحة: International Educational Data Mining Society. e-mail: admin@educationaldatamining.org; Web site: https://educationaldatamining.org/conferencesTest/
تمت مراجعته من قبل الزملاء: Y
Page Count: 14
تاريخ النشر: 2022
نوع الوثيقة: Speeches/Meeting Papers
Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education
Postsecondary Education
الواصفات: Online Courses, Group Discussion, Learner Engagement, Student Participation, Predictor Variables, Graduate Students, Models, Classification, Foreign Countries, Error Patterns, Automation
مصطلحات جغرافية: Canada
مستخلص: The need to identify student cognitive engagement in online-learning settings has increased with our use of online learning approaches because engagement plays an important role in ensuring student success in these environments. Engaged students are more likely to complete online courses successfully, but this setting makes it more difficult for instructors to identify engagement. In this study, we developed predictive models for automating the identification o f cognitive engagement in online discussion posts. We adapted the Interactive, Constructive, Active, and Passive (ICAP) Engagement theory [15] by merging ICAP with Bloom's taxonomy. We then applied this adaptation of ICAP to label student posts (N = 4,217), thus capturing their level of cognitive engagement. To investigate the feasibility of automatically identifying cognitive engagement, the labelled data were used to train three machine learning classifiers (i.e., decision tree, random forest, and support vector machine). Model inputs included features extracted by applying CohMetrix to student posts and non-linguistic contextual features (e.g., number of replies). The support vector machine model outperformed the other classifiers. Our findings suggest it is feasible to automatically identify cognitive engagement in online learning environments. Subsequent analyses suggest that new language features (e.g., AWL use) should be included because they support the identification o f cognitive engagement. Such detectors could be used to help identify students who are in need of support or help adapt teaching practices and learning materials. [For the full proceedings, see ED623995.]
Abstractor: As Provided
Entry Date: 2022
رقم الانضمام: ED624102
قاعدة البيانات: ERIC