Deep Attentive Study Session Dropout Prediction in Mobile Learning Environment

Youngnam Lee, Dongmin Shin, HyunBin Loh, Jaemin Lee, Piljae Chae, Junghyun Cho, Seoyon Park, Jinhwan Lee, Jineon Baek, Byungsoo Kim, Youngduck Choi

2020

Abstract

Student dropout prediction provides an opportunity to improve student engagement, which maximizes the overall effectiveness of learning experiences. However, researches on student dropout were mainly conducted on school dropout or course dropout, and study session dropout in a mobile learning environment has not been considered thoroughly. In this paper, we investigate the study session dropout prediction problem in a mobile learning environment. First, we define the concept of the study session, study session dropout and study session dropout prediction task in a mobile learning environment. Based on the definitions, we propose a novel Transformer based model for predicting study session dropout, DAS: Deep Attentive Study Session Dropout Prediction in Mobile Learning Environment. DAS has an encoder-decoder structure which is composed of stacked multi-head attention and point-wise feed-forward networks. The deep attentive computations in DAS are capable of capturing complex relations among dynamic student interactions. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first attempt to investigate study session dropout in a mobile learning environment. Empirical evaluations on a large-scale dataset show that DAS achieves the best performance with a significant improvement in area under the receiver operating characteristic curve compared to baseline models.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Lee Y., Shin D., Loh H., Lee J., Chae P., Cho J., Park S., Lee J., Baek J., Kim B. and Choi Y. (2020). Deep Attentive Study Session Dropout Prediction in Mobile Learning Environment.In Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 1: CSEDU, ISBN 978-989-758-417-6, pages 26-35. DOI: 10.5220/0009347700260035

in Bibtex Style

@conference{csedu20,
author={Youngnam Lee and Dongmin Shin and HyunBin Loh and Jaemin Lee and Piljae Chae and Junghyun Cho and Seoyon Park and Jinhwan Lee and Jineon Baek and Byungsoo Kim and Youngduck Choi},
title={Deep Attentive Study Session Dropout Prediction in Mobile Learning Environment},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 1: CSEDU,},
year={2020},
pages={26-35},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0009347700260035},
isbn={978-989-758-417-6},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 1: CSEDU,
TI - Deep Attentive Study Session Dropout Prediction in Mobile Learning Environment
SN - 978-989-758-417-6
AU - Lee Y.
AU - Shin D.
AU - Loh H.
AU - Lee J.
AU - Chae P.
AU - Cho J.
AU - Park S.
AU - Lee J.
AU - Baek J.
AU - Kim B.
AU - Choi Y.
PY - 2020
SP - 26
EP - 35
DO - 10.5220/0009347700260035