The content of MOOC students' plans forecasts completion, with time-focused plans predicting lower completion¶

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Subclaims¶

q3 i? The contents of students' plans predicted which students were least likely to succeed; in particular, students whose plans focused on specific times were unlikely to complete the course. → Yeomans 2017

Evidence¶

Yeomans 2017¶

Yeomans, Michael and Reich, Justin. 2017. "Planning Prompts Increase and Forecast Course Completion in Massive Open Online Courses." Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). https://doi.org/10.1145/3027385.3027416

q3 · i? · associational · r?

Forecasting analysis from the same HarvardX field experiment: plan contents "could predict which students were least likely to succeed", and time-focused plans specifically marked students unlikely to complete. No effect size or test statistic is printed, so no magnitude is coded.

"Furthermore, the contents of students' plans could predict which students were least likely to succeed - in particular, students whose plans focused on specific times were unlikely to complete the course."

Discussion¶

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