Improving prediction of students' performance in intelligent tutoring systems using attribute selection and ensembles of different multimodal data sources
This work addresses performance prediction for students in educational technology, but it is incremental as it applies known techniques to a specific dataset.
The study tackled predicting university students' learning performance in an Intelligent Tutoring System by using attribute selection and ensembles on multimodal data, achieving the best predictions with ensembles and selected attributes on numerical data.
The aim of this study was to predict university students' learning performance using different sources of data from an Intelligent Tutoring System. We collected and preprocessed data from 40 students from different multimodal sources: learning strategies from system logs, emotions from face recording videos, interaction zones from eye tracking, and test performance from final knowledge evaluation. Our objective was to test whether the prediction could be improved by using attribute selection and classification ensembles. We carried out three experiments by applying six classification algorithms to numerical and discretized preprocessed multimodal data. The results show that the best predictions were produced using ensembles and selecting the best attributes approach with numerical data.