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Multi-Channel Sequence Analysis in Educational Research: An Introduction and Tutorial with R
Authors: López-Pernas, Sonsoles; Saqr, Mohammed; Helske, Satu; Murphy, Keefe
Editors: Saqr, M., López-Pernas, S
Publisher: Springer Nature Switzerland
Publication year: 2024
Book title : Learning Analytics Methods and Tutorials
First page : 465
Last page: Learning Analytics Methods and Tutorials
ISBN: 978-3-031-54463-7
eISBN: 978-3-031-54464-4
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-54464-4_13
Web address : http://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-54464-4_13
Self-archived copy’s web address: https://research.utu.fi/converis/portal/detail/Publication/459133797
This chapter introduces multi-channel sequence analysis, a novel method that examines two or more synchronised sequences. While this approach is relatively new in social sciences, its relevance to educational research is growing as researchers gain access to diverse multimodal temporal data. Throughout this chapter, we describe multi-channel sequence analysis in detail, with an emphasis on how to detect patterns within the sequences, i.e., clusters —or trajectories— of multi-channel sequences that share similar temporal evolutions (or similar trajectories). To illustrate this method we present a step-by-step tutorial in R that analyses students’ sequences of online engagement and academic achievement, exploring their longitudinal association. We cover two approaches for clustering multi-channel sequences: one based on using distance-based algorithms, and the other employing mixture hidden Markov models inspired by recent research.
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