Analyzing the Relationship between Student’s Assignment Submission Behaviors and Course Achievement through Process Mining Analysis

Year 2020, Volume: 11 Issue: 2, 386 - 401, 31.08.2020

Gökhan Akçapınar , Mehmet Kokoç

https://doi.org/10.16949/turkbilmat.711683

Abstract

In this study, it is aimed to analyze the relationship between student’s assignment submission behaviors and course achievement. For this purpose, the behaviors of 75 students’ who enrolled in the Operating Systems and Applications course at a public university, submission an assignment through the Moodle learning management system given in the fourth week of the course is analyzed. Students who exhibit different assignment submission behaviors are also analyzed in terms of end-of-term grades. During analyzing, the steps followed by the students while submitting their assignments are determined respectively, and students who display a similar pattern are divided into groups by means of cluster analysis. Moreover, using process mining analysis assignment submission processes of students in different groups are analyzed in detail. The analysis shows that students can be divided into three different groups based on their assignment submission behaviors. In terms of course achievement, it is observed that a significant portion of the students who submitted the assignments are successful in the course, while a significant portion of the students who did not submit the assignment failed. The findings will be guideway in determining the students who are likely to fail the course in the early weeks and in designing possible interferences for these students.

Keywords

process mining, Learning analytics, assignment, educational data mining, clustering, Moodle

Üniversite Öğrencilerinin Ödev Gönderme Davranışları ile Ders Başarıları Arasındaki İlişkinin Süreç Madenciliği Analizi ile İncelenmesi

Abstract

Bu çalışmada üniversite öğrencilerinin ödev gönderme davranışları ile ders başarıları arasındaki ilişkinin incelenmesi amaçlanmıştır. Bu amaçla, bir devlet üniversitesinde İşletim Sistemleri ve Uygulamaları dersine kayıtlı 75 öğrencinin Moodle öğrenme yönetim sistemi üzerinden dersin dördüncü haftasında verilen bir ödevi gönderme davranışları analiz edilmiştir. Aynı zamanda farklı ödev gönderme davranışı sergileyen öğrenciler dönem sonu notları açısından da analiz edilmiştir. Analiz aşamasında, öğrencilerin ödev gönderirken izledikleri adımlar sıralı olarak belirlenmiş ve kümeleme analizi yardımı ile benzer örüntü sergileyen öğrenciler gruplara ayrılmıştır. Aynı zamanda süreç madenciliği analizi kullanılarak farklı gruplardaki öğrencilerin ödev gönderme süreçleri detaylı olarak analiz edilmiştir. Yapılan analizler, öğrencilerin ödev gönderme davranışlarına göre üç farklı gruba ayrılabileceğini göstermiştir. Ders başarısı açısından bakıldığında ise ödevi gönderen öğrencilerin önemli bir bölümünün dersten başarılı olduğu gözlemlenirken, ödev gönderiminde bulunmayan öğrencilerin önemli bir bölümünün dersten başarısız olduğu görülmüştür. Elde edilen bulgular, dersten başarısız olma ihtimali yüksek olan öğrencilerin erken haftalarda belirlenmesinde ve bu öğrencilere yönelik olası müdahalelerin tasarlanmasında yol gösterici olacaktır.

Keywords

Öğrenme analitikleri, ödev, eğitsel veri madenciliği, kümeleme, süreç madenciliği, Moodle

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