Identifying At-Risk Students in Massive Open Online Courses

Authors: Jiazhen He, James Bailey, Benjamin Rubinstein, Rui Zhang

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Reproducibility Variable Result LLM Response
Research Type Experimental Experimental results on two offerings of a Coursera MOOC establish the effectiveness of our algorithms.
Researcher Affiliation Academia Department of Computing and Information Systems, The University of Melbourne, Australia Victoria Research Laboratory, National ICT Australia jiazhenh@student.unimelb.edu.au, {baileyj, brubinstein, rui.zhang}@unimelb.edu.au
Pseudocode No The paper describes the mathematical formulations of its algorithms (LR-SEQ, LR-SIM) but does not include a distinct pseudocode block or algorithm listing.
Open Source Code No The paper does not provide any explicit statement about releasing its source code, nor does it include a link to a code repository. It mentions that its algorithms "would be practical for deployment" and a future plan to "deploy our identification models and subsequent interventions in a MOOC for A/B testing," but this does not constitute immediate or concrete access to source code.
Open Datasets No The paper uses
Dataset Splits Yes Figure 1: Failure-probability trajectories for three students across nine weeks produced by logistic regression with cross-validation performed weekly on Dis Opt launched in 2014.
Hardware Specification No The paper does not specify any hardware details (e.g., GPU models, CPU types, or cloud computing instances) used for running the experiments.
Software Dependencies No The paper mentions several software tools and libraries (e.g., "Lib SVM", "J48", "weka") that were explored or used, but it does not provide specific version numbers for any of them.
Experiment Setup Yes We train models using the above four algorithms on Dis Opt1, where λ1 = 10 and λ2 = 1, and apply them to Dis Opt2.