Effects of Early Warning Emails on Student Performance

Jens Klenke, Till Massing, Natalie Reckmann, Janine Langerbein, Benjamin Otto, Michael Goedicke, Christoph Hanck

2023

Abstract

Individual support for students in large university courses is often difficult. To give students feedback regarding their current level of learning at an early stage, we have implemented a warning system that is intended to motivate students to study more intensively before the final exam. For that purpose, we use learning data from an e-assessment platform for an introductory mathematical statistics course to predict the probability of passing the final exam for each student. Subsequently, we sent a warning email to students with a low predicted probability of passing the exam. Using a regression discontinuity design (RDD), we detect a positive but imprecisely estimated effect of this treatment. Our results suggest that a single such email is only a weak signal – in particular when they already receive other feedback via midterms, in-class quizzes, etc. – to nudge students to study more intensively.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Klenke J., Massing T., Reckmann N., Langerbein J., Otto B., Goedicke M. and Hanck C. (2023). Effects of Early Warning Emails on Student Performance. In Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 1: CSEDU, ISBN 978-989-758-641-5, SciTePress, pages 225-232. DOI: 10.5220/0011847800003470

in Bibtex Style

@conference{csedu23,
author={Jens Klenke and Till Massing and Natalie Reckmann and Janine Langerbein and Benjamin Otto and Michael Goedicke and Christoph Hanck},
title={Effects of Early Warning Emails on Student Performance},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 1: CSEDU,},
year={2023},
pages={225-232},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0011847800003470},
isbn={978-989-758-641-5},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 1: CSEDU,
TI - Effects of Early Warning Emails on Student Performance
SN - 978-989-758-641-5
AU - Klenke J.
AU - Massing T.
AU - Reckmann N.
AU - Langerbein J.
AU - Otto B.
AU - Goedicke M.
AU - Hanck C.
PY - 2023
SP - 225
EP - 232
DO - 10.5220/0011847800003470
PB - SciTePress