Analysis of Student Academic Performance Using Human-in-the-Loop Cyber-Physical Systems

Is it possible to analyze student academic performance using Human-in-the-Loop Cyber-Physical Systems (HiLCPS) and offering personalized learning methodologies? Taking advantage of the Internet of Things (IoT) and mobile phone sensors, this article presents a system that can be used to adapt pedagogical methodologies and to improve academic performance. Thus, in this domain, the present work shows a system capable of analyzing student behavior and the correlation with their academic performance. Our system is composed of an IoT application named ISABELA and a set of open-source technologies provided by the FIWARE Project. The analysis of student performance was done through the collection of data, during 30 days, from a group of Ecuadorian university students at “Escuela Politécnica Nacional” in Quito, Ecuador. Data gathering was carried out during the first period of classes using the students’ smartphones. In this analysis, we found a significant correlation between the students’ lifestyle and their academic performance according to certain parameters, such as the time spent on the university campus, the students’ sociability, and physical activity, etc.

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The University Experience Course: A Longitudinal Study of Student Performance, Retention, and Graduation

Journal of College Student Retention Research Theory & Practice ◽

10.2190/k7k9-91eg-e6f9-evmk ◽

2001 ◽

Vol 2 (4) ◽

pp. 327-340 ◽

Cited By ~ 18

Author(s):

A. Michael Williford ◽

Laura Cross Chapman ◽

Tammy Kahrig

Keyword(s):

Academic Performance ◽

Student Performance ◽

Graduation Rates ◽

Retention Rates ◽

Orientation Course ◽

Student Academic Performance ◽

First Year Retention ◽

Student Graduation ◽

University Experience ◽

The University

The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between participation in an extended orientation course and student academic performance, student retention, and student graduation. Ten years of participants in Ohio University's freshman “University Experience” course were compared with comparable nonparticipants. In the comparison of student academic performance, the effects of students' prior academic achievement and students' measured academic aptitude were controlled. First-year retention and four-, five-, and six-year graduation rates were compared. In most years of the study, participating students' year-end GPAs were higher than nonparticipants‘, retention rates were higher, and four-, five-, and six-year graduation rates were higher. The purpose of the course is to help students adjust to the demands of the university environment and develop long-term academic skills, which these results support. Student motivational effects are also discussed.

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Co-Simulation of Cyber Physical Systems with HMI for Human in the Loop Investigation

TMS/DEVS Symposium on Theory of Modeling & Simulation (TMS/DEVS 2017) ◽

10.22360/springsim.2017.tmsdevs.012 ◽

2017 ◽

Keyword(s):

Cyber Physical Systems ◽

Physical Systems ◽

Human In The Loop

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Effects of Socio-Academic Intervention on Student Performance in Vulnerable Groups

Sustainability ◽

10.3390/su13147673 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 13 (14) ◽

pp. 7673

Author(s):

Tarquino Sánchez-Almeida ◽

David Naranjo ◽

Raquel Gilar-Corbi ◽

Jessica Reina

Keyword(s):

Higher Education ◽

Academic Performance ◽

Student Performance ◽

Academic Intervention ◽

Vulnerable Groups ◽

University System ◽

Higher Education System ◽

Economic Support ◽

Support Mechanisms ◽

The University

In Ecuador, affirmative action policies enable students from vulnerable groups to preferentially enter universities. However, these policies are limited to admission and do not include academic or socio-economic support mechanisms that, according to the literature, promote student insertion in the higher education system. In this study, the effects of socio-academic intervention on the academic performance of vulnerable students are presented. For this, 41 students were selected among 164 vulnerable students entering the Escuela Politécnica Nacional in the second term of 2019. The 41 students attended a socio-academic intervention course for one term, while the remaining 123 attended the Escuela Politécnica Nacional levelling course directly. Once both groups of students finished the levelling course, their performance in each of the course subjects was compared. The results showed that the academic performance of the students in the intervention was significantly higher in mathematics and geometry compared to the students who had no intervention. These results show that the socio-academic intervention promotes the real insertion of vulnerable students in the university system.

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Enabling the human in the loop: Linked data and knowledge in industrial cyber-physical systems

Annual Reviews in Control ◽

10.1016/j.arcontrol.2019.03.004 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 47 ◽

pp. 249-265 ◽

Cited By ~ 19

Author(s):

Christos Emmanouilidis ◽

Petros Pistofidis ◽

Luka Bertoncelj ◽

Vassilis Katsouros ◽

Apostolos Fournaris ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Linked Data ◽

Cyber Physical Systems ◽

Physical Systems ◽

Human In The Loop

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Cloud-Based Testing for Context-Aware Cyber-Physical Systems

Software Design and Development ◽

10.4018/978-1-4666-4301-7.ch088 ◽

2014 ◽

pp. 1851-1877

Author(s):

Christian Berger

Keyword(s):

Cyber Physical Systems ◽

Significant Shift ◽

Development Projects ◽

Sensors And Actuators ◽

Web Browser ◽

Design Decisions ◽

Physical Systems ◽

Development Tools ◽

Testing Approach ◽

The University

Cloud-based applications like email services or office suites enable real-time collaboration and traceability for shared data from nearly anywhere by using a modern web-browser. Thus, a significant shift has happened to these common applications to focus only on their usage than on their maintenance. However, today’s software development projects spend a noteworthy amount of resources to setup and maintain necessary development tools–over and over again. Thus, a similar shift for these development tools in the future would enable to spend valuable resources more on the actual project’s goals than on the tools’ maintenance. Especially development projects for cyber-physical systems, which interact with the real life’s surroundings by relying on sensors and actuators, have specific needs when using cloud-based solutions. In this contribution, preconditions, design decisions, and limitations of a cloud-based testing approach for CPS are outlined and discussed on the example “Hesperia.” “Hesperia” bases on the experiences from the development of “Caroline”–an autonomously driving vehicle for the 2007 DARPA Urban Challenge. “Hesperia” as a cloud-based testing approach was tested 2009 during the development of an autonomously driving vehicle at the University of California, Berkeley.

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Review of Human-in-the-Loop Cyber-Physical Systems (HiLCPS): The Current Status from Human Perspective

Computing in Civil Engineering 2019 ◽

10.1061/9780784482438.060 ◽

2019 ◽

Author(s):

Behnam Moshkini Tehrani ◽

Jun Wang ◽

Chao Wang

Keyword(s):

Cyber Physical Systems ◽

Current Status ◽

Physical Systems ◽

Human In The Loop

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Internet of Things and Cyber-Physical Systems at the University

Tools and Technologies for the Development of Cyber-Physical Systems - Advances in Computer and Electrical Engineering ◽

10.4018/978-1-7998-1974-5.ch011 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 285-302

Author(s):

Dmitry Namiot ◽

Manfred Sneps-Sneppe

Keyword(s):

Internet Of Things ◽

Information And Communication Technologies ◽

Smart Cities ◽

Cyber Physical Systems ◽

The Internet ◽

Physical Systems ◽

Information And Communication ◽

The University ◽

Educational Course ◽

The Internet Of Things

This chapter describes proposals for organizing university programs on the internet of things (IoT) and cyber-physical systems. The final goal is to provide a structure for a basic educational course for the internet of things and related areas. This base (template) could be used both for direct training and for building other courses, including those that are more deeply specialized in selected areas. For related areas, the authors see, for example, machine-to-machine communications and data-driven cities (smart cities) development. Obviously, the internet of things skills are in high demand nowadays, and, of course, IoT models, architectures, as well as appropriate data proceedings elements should be presented in the university courses. The purpose of the described educational course is to cover information and communication technologies used in the internet of things systems and related areas. Also, the authors discuss big data and AI issues for IoT courses and highlight the importance of data engineering.

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