Analysis of computer event logs to assess student engagement in classroom: A case study in the United States

In current education, it is difficult for a teacher to know the engagement of each student, the contents that students cannot understand and the reason why students cannot perform sufficiently in the quizzes and exams. To study student engagement in classroom, we digitize materials used in lectures, including textbooks and collect event logs of tablets used by students. By analyzing these logs, we study and visualize the student engagement. We conducted some preliminary experiments in an introduction to information technology lecture in the United States. We successfully identified issues in student learning effectiveness with respect to motivation and tablet skills of the students.