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Online learning platforms such as massive online open courses (MOOCs) and

intelligent tutoring systems (ITSs) have made learning more accessible and personalized. These systems generate unprecedented amounts of behavioral data and open the way for predicting students’ future performance based on

Online learning platforms such as massive online open courses (MOOCs) and

intelligent tutoring systems (ITSs) have made learning more accessible and personalized. These systems generate unprecedented amounts of behavioral data and open the way for predicting students’ future performance based on their behavior, and for assessing their strengths and weaknesses in learning.

This thesis attempts to mine students’ working patterns using a programming problem solving system, and build predictive models to estimate students’ learning. QuizIT, a programming solving system, was used to collect students’ problem-solving activities from a lower-division computer science programming course in 2016 Fall semester. Differential mining techniques were used to extract frequent patterns based on each activity provided details about question’s correctness, complexity, topic, and time to represent students’ behavior. These patterns were further used to build classifiers to predict students’ performances.

Seven main learning behaviors were discovered based on these patterns, which provided insight into students’ metacognitive skills and thought processes. Besides predicting students’ performance group, the classification models also helped in finding important behaviors which were crucial in determining a student’s positive or negative performance throughout the semester.
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    • Behavioral Pattern Mining and Modeling in Programming Problem Solving
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    2017
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