Forums are a common component of online courses. Generally, they are used a medium for students and instructors to interact with one another for discussion, inquiry, etc.
Instructors generally use these forums to make announcements regarding due dates, answer student questions and comment on student discussion. This project explores how faculty engagement in these specific environments affects various student outcomes. Specifically, we investigate its relationship with student activity and student grades.
This project had several other collaborators whose work may or may not be included in this repository. The other collaborators who helped accomplish this project were Phil Arcuria, Patrick Pettyjohn, and Mike Sharkey.
There are four documents in this repository detailing our findings -
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Data_Inspection.pdf
- A relatively short search through the data for potential problems; discusses missing data, basic distributions, and drops we made in order to move on to modeling
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Exploratory_Analysis.pdf
- EDA of the discussion forum data - searching for features potentially related to the various outcomes we are interested in
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Modeling_Workspace.pdf
- Any modeling done by myself is cataloged here; this does not contain all of the information contained in the final paper.
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Paper_Final.pdf
- A complete write-up of our findings; includes work not necessarily contained in this repo