Extraction of LMS Student Engagement and Behavioral Patterns in Online Education Using Decision Tree and K-Means Algorithm

Ma. Corazon G. Fernando
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Ace C. Lagman
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Lalaine P. Abad
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Paul Lawrenz S. Ong
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a Information Technology, FEU Institute of Technology, Philippines
Abstract: The Learning Management System is an innovative tool to facilitate online learning using technology. It monitors students’ learning progress and actions. As most academic institutions are already shifted from the traditional learning to online and blended learning approaches, analysis of students’ learning behaviors is empirical to design necessary and suited academic intervention programs. With this, the researchers aimed to identify significant attributes affecting student academic performance in an online education environment. The knowledge discovery in databases (KDD) was used to provide step by step process in extracting and evaluating the predictive and cluster models which aim to classify students who will have academic learning difficulty based on sets of parameters and constraints. The study reveals that students with low engagement in online learning are those with problems in terms of their academic performance. Therefore, the study reaffirmed that there is a strong relationship between student behaviors in LMS and academic achievement.