Sharpest Tool in the Shed: Investigating SMART Models of Self-Regulation and their Impact on Learning
Stephen Hutt, Jaclyn Ocumpaugh, Juliana Ma. Alexandra L. Andres, Nigel Bosch, Luc Paquette, Gautam Biswas, Ryan Baker
Jun 30, 2021 20:10 UTC+2
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Session C2
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Zoom link
Keywords: Self Regulation, SMART, Self Regulated Learning, Machine Learning, Student Interviews
Abstract:
Self-regulated learning (SRL) is a critical 21st-century skill. In this paper, we examine SRL through the lens of the searching, monitoring, assessing, rehearsing, and translating (SMART) schema for learning operations. We use microanalysis to measure SRL behaviors as students interact with a computer-based learning environment, Betty's Brain. We leverage interaction data, survey data, in situ student interviews, and supervised machine learning techniques to predict the proportion of time spent on each of the SMART schema facets, developing models with prediction accuracy ranging from rho = .19 for translating to rho = .66 or assembling. We examine key interactions between variables in our models and discuss the implications for future SRL research. Finally, we show that both ground truth and predicted values can be used to predict learning in the system. In fact, the inferred models of SRL outperform the ground truth versions, demonstrating both their generalizability and their potential for using these models to improve adaptive scaffolding for students who are still developing SRL skills.