The approach offers a large real-time intervention window, with a median of 176.2-196.1 hours between the prediction point and the final problem deadline¶
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q2 i? The median time gap between a student's last visit of the preceding slide and the deadline for the final slide ranged between 176.2 hours (7.3 days) and 196.1 hours (8.2 days) across courses. → Vincent Zhang 2025
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Vincent Zhang 2025¶
Vincent Zhang, Bryn Jeffries, Irena Koprinska. (2025). A Machine Learning Approach for Predicting Student Progress in Online Programming Education. Int J Artif Intell Educ. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40593-025-00510-9
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Analysis of the time gap between last visit of the preceding slide and the final-problem deadline (Table 4) across the four courses. The article also reports most students reach the second last slide and most then attempt the last problem (Table 5), and that DTs are fast enough for real-time prediction.
"We can observe that the proposed method has a sufficiently high prediction window, with the median ranging between 176.2 hours (7.3 days) and 196.1 hours (8.2 days)."
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The approach offers a large real-time intervention window, with a median of 176.2-196.1 hours between the prediction point and the final problem deadline |
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The approach offers a large real-time intervention window, with a median of 176.2-196.1 hours between the prediction point and the final problem deadline |
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