Applying Causal Inference in Educational Data Mining: A Pilot Study

Walisson Ferreira de Carvalho, Bráulio Roberto Gonçalves Marinho Couto, Ana Paula Ladeira, Osmar Ventura Gomes, Luis Enrique Zarate

2018

Abstract

Understanding the reasons that leads students to succeed during their course is a challenge for every Institution of Education, independently of the modality of teaching and learning adopted. In this paper we use the theory of Causal Inference for analyzing the main factors that causes the success, or failure, of an engineering student enrolled in an online course of Algorithm . We used data extracted from the Learning Management System Moodle and, after preprocessing the dataset, analyzed the actions performed by the students during the six months (20 weeks) that the online course lasted. We concluded that before submitting an evaluation activity to be assessed, it is important that students analyze the problem thoroughly. Students that took a little bit longer to submit their work got more chances to be approved.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Ferreira de Carvalho W., Roberto Gonçalves Marinho Couto B., Ladeira A., Ventura Gomes O. and Zarate L. (2018). Applying Causal Inference in Educational Data Mining: A Pilot Study.In Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 1: CSEDU, ISBN 978-989-758-291-2, pages 454-460. DOI: 10.5220/0006792504540460

in Bibtex Style

@conference{csedu18,
author={Walisson Ferreira de Carvalho and Bráulio Roberto Gonçalves Marinho Couto and Ana Paula Ladeira and Osmar Ventura Gomes and Luis Enrique Zarate},
title={Applying Causal Inference in Educational Data Mining: A Pilot Study},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 1: CSEDU,},
year={2018},
pages={454-460},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0006792504540460},
isbn={978-989-758-291-2},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 1: CSEDU,
TI - Applying Causal Inference in Educational Data Mining: A Pilot Study
SN - 978-989-758-291-2
AU - Ferreira de Carvalho W.
AU - Roberto Gonçalves Marinho Couto B.
AU - Ladeira A.
AU - Ventura Gomes O.
AU - Zarate L.
PY - 2018
SP - 454
EP - 460
DO - 10.5220/0006792504540460