3 papers
stat.AP2018
Beyond A/B Testing: Sequential Randomization for Developing Interventions in Scaled Digital Learning Environments
Timothy NeCamp, Josh Gardner, Christopher Brooks
Randomized experiments ensure robust causal inference that are critical to effective learning analytics research and practice. However, traditional randomized experiments, like A/B…
cs.CY2018
Enabling End-To-End Machine Learning Replicability: A Case Study in Educational Data Mining
Josh Gardner, Yuming Yang, Ryan Baker +1
The use of machine learning techniques has expanded in education research, driven by the rich data from digital learning environments and institutional data warehouses. However, re…
stat.AP2018
Dropout Model Evaluation in MOOCs
Josh Gardner, Christopher Brooks
The field of learning analytics needs to adopt a more rigorous approach for predictive model evaluation that matches the complex practice of model-building. In this work, we presen…