WPSS: Dropout Prediction for MOOCs using course progress normalization and subset selection

Yuqian Chai, Chi Un Lei, Xiao Hu, Yu Kwong Kwok

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Abstract

There are existing multi-MOOC level dropout prediction research in which many MOOCs' data are involved. This generated good results, but there are two potential problems. On one hand, it is inappropriate to use which week students are in to select training data because courses are with different durations. On the other hand, using all other existing data can be computationally expensive and inapplicable in practice. To solve these problems, we propose a model called WPSS (WPercent and Subset Selection) which combines the course progress normalization parameter wpercent and subset selection. 10 MOOCs offered by The University of Hong Kong are involved and experiments are in the multi-MOOC level. The best performance of WPSS is obtained in neural network when 50% of training data is selected (average AUC of 0.9334). Average AUC is 0.8833 for traditional model without wpercent and subset selection in the same dataset.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 5th Annual ACM Conference on Learning at Scale, L at S 2018
ISBN (Electronic)9781450358866
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 26 Jun 2018
Externally publishedYes
Event5th Annual ACM Conference on Learning at Scale, L at S 2018 - London, United Kingdom
Duration: 26 Jun 201828 Jun 2018

Publication series

NameProceedings of the 5th Annual ACM Conference on Learning at Scale, L at S 2018

Conference

Conference5th Annual ACM Conference on Learning at Scale, L at S 2018
Country/TerritoryUnited Kingdom
CityLondon
Period26/06/1828/06/18

Keywords

  • Data Selection
  • Dropout Prediction
  • Multi-MOOC

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