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The Effect of Different Support Strategies on Student Affect

Le Tallec, Julie
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Prihar, Ethan  
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Käser, Tanja  
March 3, 2025
LAK '25: Proceedings of the 15th International Learning Analytics and Knowledge Conference
15th International Conference on Learning Analytics and Knowledge

Within many online learning platforms, struggling students are provided with support to guide them through challenging material. Support comes in many forms, and is typically evaluated based on its ability to improve students' performance on future tasks. However, there is little experimentation to evaluate how these supports impact students' emotional states. Student's emotional state, or affect, significantly impacts their motivation to engage with learning material and persist through challenges. Positive emotions can foster intrinsic engagement and deeper commitment, whereas negative emotions may lead to disengagement and avoidance of challenging tasks. In this work, we use publicly available data from online experiments and affect modeling to causally evaluate the impact that different support strategies have on students' affect. Through analysis of 25 experiments with 6,463 total participants, we find multiple significant positive and negative changes in students' affect when receiving hints, examples, or scaffolding questions, despite all three having a positive impact on performance, revealing the need for more nuanced evaluations of support strategies to uncover their impact beyond just performance. The code for this project is available at https://osf.io/74dgx.

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Type
conference paper
DOI
10.1145/3706468.3706469
Scopus ID

2-s2.0-105000313802

Author(s)
Le Tallec, Julie

École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

Prihar, Ethan  

École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

Käser, Tanja  

EPFL

Date Issued

2025-03-03

Publisher

Association for Computing Machinery, Inc

Publisher place

New York

Published in
LAK '25: Proceedings of the 15th International Learning Analytics and Knowledge Conference
ISBN of the book

9798400707018

Start page

783

End page

789

Subjects

Affect Detection

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Online Tutoring

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Randomized Controlled Experiments

Editorial or Peer reviewed

REVIEWED

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EPFL

EPFL units
NX-MA4
ML4ED  
Event nameEvent acronymEvent placeEvent date
15th International Conference on Learning Analytics and Knowledge

LAK '25

Dublin, Ireland

2025-03-03 - 2025-03-07

FunderFunding(s)Grant NumberGrant URL

Swiss State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation

Available on Infoscience
April 2, 2025
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https://infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.500.14299/248502
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