Abstract
This paper describes the analysis of temporal behavior of 11-15 year old students in a heavily instructionally designed adaptive e-learning environment. The e-learning system is designed to support student's acquisition of health literacy. The system adapts text difficulty depending on students' reading competence, grouping students into four competence levels. Content for the four levels of reading competence was created by clinical psychologists, pedagogues and medicine students. The e-learning system consists of an initial reading competence assessment, texts about health issues, and learning tasks related to these texts. The research question we investigate in this work is whether temporal behavior is a differentiator between students despite the system's adaptation to students' reading competence, and despite students having comparatively little freedom of action within the system. Further, we also investigated the correlation of temporal behaviour with performance. Unsupervised clustering clearly separates students into slow and fast students with respect to the time they take to complete tasks. Furthermore, topic completion time is linearly correlated with performance in the tasks. This means that we interpret working slowly in this case as diligence, which leads to more correct answers, even though the level of text difficulty matches student's reading competence. This result also points to the design opportunity to integrate advice on overarching learning strategies, such as working diligently instead of rushing through, into the student's overall learning activity. This can be done either by teachers, or via additional adaptive learning guidance within the system.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | LAK 2020 Conference Proceedings - Celebrating 10 years of LAK |
Subtitle of host publication | Shaping the Future of the Field - 10th International Conference on Learning Analytics and Knowledge |
Pages | 112-117 |
Number of pages | 6 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9781450377126 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 23 Mar 2020 |
Event | 10th International Conference on Learning Analytics and Knowledge: Shaping the Future of the Field, LAK 2020 - University of Frankfurt, Virtuell, Frankfurt, Germany Duration: 23 Mar 2020 → 27 Mar 2020 https://lak20.solaresearch.org/ |
Publication series
Name | ACM International Conference Proceeding Series |
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Conference
Conference | 10th International Conference on Learning Analytics and Knowledge |
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Abbreviated title | LAK 2020 |
Country/Territory | Germany |
City | Virtuell, Frankfurt |
Period | 23/03/20 → 27/03/20 |
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Keywords
- learning analytics
- Health literacy
- Adaptive e-learning system
- Learning analytics
- Diversity
- Reading competence
- Clustering
- Differentiation
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Software
- Human-Computer Interaction
- Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
- Computer Networks and Communications