Relationship between students' online learning behavior and course performance: What contextual information matters?

Z Chen, M Xu, G Garrido, MW Guthrie - Physical Review Physics Education …, 2020 - APS
This study examines whether including more contextual information in data analysis could
improve our ability to identify the relation between students' online learning behavior and …

[PDF][PDF] The impact of extra credit incentives on students' work habits when completing online homework assignments

Z Felker, Z Chen - 2020 Physics Education Research Conference …, 2020 - par.nsf.gov
Many college students frequently procrastinate on assignments and cram before due dates
and exams. Several studies have shown that those behaviors are frequently associated with …

Measuring the level of homework answer copying during COVID-19 induced remote instruction

Z Chen - Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2022 - APS
This paper examines the prevalence of rapid answer copying among university students
completing online homework for an introductory level calculus-based physics course taught …

Improving accuracy in measuring the impact of online instruction on students' ability to transfer physics problem-solving skills

KM Whitcomb, MW Guthrie, C Singh, Z Chen - Physical Review Physics …, 2021 - APS
In two earlier studies, we developed a new method to measure students' ability to transfer
physics problem-solving skills to new contexts using a sequence of online learning modules …

How Does a Data-Informed Deliberate Change in Learning Design Impact Students' Self-Regulated Learning Tactics?

Z Chen, T Zhang, M Taub - Journal of Learning Analytics, 2024 - learning-analytics.info
The current study measures the extent to which students' self-regulated learning tactics and
learning outcomes change as the result of a deliberate, data-driven improvement in the …

Re-Designing the Structure of Online Courses to Empower Educational Data Mining.

Z Chen, S Lee, G Garrido - International Educational Data Mining Society, 2018 - ERIC
The amount of information contained in any educational data set is fundamentally
constrained by the instructional conditions under which the data are collected. In this study …

[PDF][PDF] A tale of two guessing strategies: interpreting the time students spend solving problems through online log data

MW Guthrie, T Zhang, Z Chen - 2020 Physics Education Research …, 2020 - par.nsf.gov
Time-stamped log data from online learning platforms provide rich information about
students' learning behavior [1–3]. However, one significant challenge in the mining of log …

How is students' online learning behavior related to their course outcomes in an introductory physics course?

G Garrido, M Guthrie, Z Chen - Available at SSRN 3522731, 2020 - papers.ssrn.com
This study investigates patterns in students' learning and problem-solving behavior as they
proceed through a sequence of 10 mastery-based online learning modules and how these …

Comparing student behavior in mastery and conventional style online physics homework

M Guthrie, Z Chen - Available at SSRN 3522737, 2020 - papers.ssrn.com
We compared students' learning behavior when completing identical online calculus-based
physics homework assignments organized in two ways. One was designed for mastery …

Evaluating the effectiveness of two methods to improve students' problem solving performance after studying an online tutorial

Z Chen, K Whitcomb, M Guthrie… - Available at SSRN …, 2019 - papers.ssrn.com
An earlier study using sequences of online learning modules found that a significant fraction
of undergraduate students were unable to solve similar new problems after learning from an …