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ERIC Number: ED578433
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2017-Jun
Pages: 4
Abstractor: As Provided
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: EISSN-
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Making the Grade: How Learner Engagement Changes after Passing a Course
Lang, David; Kindel, Alex; Domingue, Ben; Paepcke, Andreas
Grantee Submission, Paper presented at International Conference on Educational Data Mining (10th, Wuhan, Hubei, China, Jun 25-28, 2017)
Understanding how individuals interact with a course after receiving a passing grade could have important implications for course design. If individuals become disengaged after passing a class, then this may raise questions about optimal ordering of content, course difficulty, and grade transparency. Using a person fixed effects model, we analyze how individuals who obtained passing grades subsequently behaved within a course. These learners were less likely to complete videos and more likely to watch videos faster after receiving notice of a passing grade in the class. These learners were also less likely to reattempt items they initially got wrong. [Article published in the "Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Educational Data Mining," Jun 2017]
Publication Type: Reports - Research; Speeches/Meeting Papers
Education Level: N/A
Audience: N/A
Language: English
Sponsor: Institute of Education Sciences (ED)
Authoring Institution: N/A
IES Funded: Yes
Grant or Contract Numbers: R305B140009