Tracking changes in students' online self-regulated learning behaviors and achievement goals using trace clustering and process mining

M Taub, AM Banzon, T Zhang, Z Chen - Frontiers in psychology, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Success in online and blended courses requires engaging in self-regulated learning (SRL),
especially for challenging STEM disciplines, such as physics. This involves students …

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 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 …

Measuring the effectiveness of learning resources via student interaction with online learning modules

Z Chen, M Guthrie - arxiv preprint arxiv:1903.08003, 2019 - arxiv.org
We present a new method for measuring the effectiveness of online learning resources,
through the analysis of time-stamped log data of students' interaction with a sequence of …

Adding duration-based quality labels to learning events for improved description of students' online learning behavior

M Guthrie, Z Chen - … of the 12th International Conference on …, 2019 - papers.ssrn.com
Many existing studies analyzing log data from online learning platforms model events such
as accessing a webpage or problem solving as simple binary states. In this study, we …