Difference Between Successful
and Failed Students Learned from Analytics of Weekly Learning
Check Testing
Authors
Hideo Hirose
Source
Information Engineering Express,
Vol 4, No 1, pp.11-21,
March 31, 2018.
Abstract
One
of the crucial issues in universities where a variety of enrolled
students shall be educated to a level of university diploma policy
is to identify students at risk for failing courses and/or dropping
out early, to take care of them, and to reduce their risks. Using
the recently developed follow-up program system aimed at helping
students who need basic learning and aimed at assisting teachers
who have to engage in teaching a variety of educational students,
we can analyze the accumulated testing results in detail because
the testings are performed every week to all the first-year undergraduate
students.
We have found that those who failed in the final examination show
the much steeper decreasing trend of correct answer rates in the
learning check testing comparing to those who were successful in
the final examination.
Although the subjects dealt with in this paper are limited to mathematics
(calculus and linear algebra), this kind of system will easily be
applied to other subjects such as STEM.