A web-based learning platform to assess student performance using online session activity engagement

Abstract

Predicting students' performance and engagement is crucial for academic eLearning partners in colleges and universities as well as students themselves considering post-COVID-19 pandemic and university grant commission (UGC) dual degree regulation era. An educational system's data on students’ engagement in taking courses that are a significant component of an institution of higher learning with a cogent vertical syllabus can be used to make predictions. By examining how closely a student's course-taking actions correspond with the requirements of the syllabus, one can utilize the student's conduct in the classroom and online eLearning web tool as a predictor of future achievement. This paper presents a study that uses an eLearning web-based dataset to predict students' success throughout a series of online interactive sessions. The dataset records how students engage with each other during online lab work, including how many keystrokes they make, how long they spend on each task, and how well they perform on exams overall. The current methods lacks accuracy to assess student performance and engagement with high precision. In addressing this paper introduces novel multi-label ensemble learning (MLEL) using XGBoost (XGB) and K-fold cross validation. Experiment outcome shows the proposed (MLEL-XGB) achieves much improved outcome than other existing models.