{"title":"Investigating Relationship Between Discourse Behavioral Patterns and Academic Achievements of Students in SPOC Discussion Forum","authors":"Zhi Liu, Wenjing Zhang, Hercy N. H. Cheng, Jianwen Sun, Sannyuya Liu","doi":"10.4018/IJDET.2018040103","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Asanovertexpressionofinternalmentalprocesses,discourseshavebecomeonemaindatasourcefor theresearchofinteractivelearning.Todeeplyexplorebehavioralregularitiesamonginteractions,this articlefirstlyadoptsthecontentanalysismethodtosummarizestudents’engagementpatternswithin acourseforuminasmallprivateonlinecourse(SPOC)system.Secondly,throughsentimentword matchingandsentimentdensitycalculation,theauthorscharacterizetheevolutiontrendsofcollective positiveandnegativesentiments,andcomparesentimentstrengthsofdifferentachievingstudents. Theanalyticalresultshowsthatthereisasignificantcorrelationbetweenmostengagementpatterns andacademicachievements,andhigh-achievinggroupseemsmoreactivethanlow-achievinggroup intermsofinteractive,register,question,viewpointandthematicpostings.Besides,bothofhighand middle-achievingstudentsaresuperiortolow-achievingstudentsonpositivesentiment.But,thereis nosignificantdifferenceamonghigh-,middle-andlow-achievingstudentsonnegativesentiments. KEywORDS Discourse Behaviors, Engagement Patterns, Learning Analytics, Sentiment Density, Small Private Online Course (SPOC)","PeriodicalId":298910,"journal":{"name":"Int. J. Distance Educ. Technol.","volume":"15 9","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2018-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"18","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Int. J. Distance Educ. Technol.","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.4018/IJDET.2018040103","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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