The Bayesian context layer applies stronger posterior personalization to students with fewer training clips, correlating clip count with KL divergence from the prior (r=-0.748, p=0.001)¶

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q2 i3 Student identities show higher KL divergence from the population prior (mean KL=14.32) than instructors (mean KL=13.12), and student clip count correlates strongly and negatively with KL divergence (r=-0.748, p=0.001). → kl-1

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Alperen Kantarcı, Visvanathan Ramesh, and Gemma Roig. 2026. Mind the Student: Behavioral and Contextual Cues for Automated Engagement Prediction in Online Learning. ICMI '26, Napoli, Italy. https://doi.org/10.1145/3776574.3832485

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Posterior analysis of the Bayesian context layer (Table 5) on CASED data, printing the correlation r=-0.748 (p=0.001). The authors interpret this as aggressive individualized posterior shifts for sparse data and convergence to a regularized population norm for data-rich students.

"statistical analysis reveals a strong, significant negative correlation between a student’s clip count and their KL divergence from the prior (r=-0.748, p=0.001)."

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