Early description of a work in progress between ACT, UMBC, Blackboard and Vitalsource to investigate the relationship between social and emotional skills and learning analytics using machine and deep learning techniques. A few preliminary results.

1. 1
Collaborative Research Project
Stealth Assessment of Social
and Emotional Skills
using Learning Analytics

2. Combine
data streams
Evidence-
Centered
Design
Feature
engineering
and learning
analytics
Building Insights
Insights
Guiding research questions
Can we observe student social and emotional skills (e.g. grit, leadership, curiosity) through
behaviors in online learning environments? Do these behaviors predict course outcomes? Are
these patterns consistent across student demographic & educational preparedness factors?
Questions? Ask John Whitmer (john.whitmer@act.org) or John Fritz (fritz@umbc.edu)

3. 3
Preliminary Results
Female
students
have higher
grit scores
than male
students
Averages of
all students
from all
participating
schools