Orderliness predicts academic performance: behavioural analysis on campus lifestyle.

ABSTRACT: Quantitative understanding of relationships between students' behavioural patterns and academic performances is a significant step towards personalized education. In contrast to previous studies that were mainly based on questionnaire surveys, recent literature suggests that unobtrusive digital data bring us unprecedented opportunities to study students' lifestyles in the campus. In this paper, we collect behavioural records from undergraduate students' (N = 18 960) smart cards and propose two high-level behavioural characters, orderliness and diligence. The former is a novel entropy-based metric that measures the regularity of campus daily life, which is estimated here based on temporal records of taking showers and having meals. Empirical analyses on such large-scale unobtrusive b

SUBMITTER: Cao Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6170765 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature