Who Did What to Succeed? Individual Differences in Which Learning Behaviors Are Linked to Achievement

• DOI: 10.31219/osf.io/u4zhf
• Publication Date: 2025-01-21T19:23:58Z
• Authors: Hannah Deininger; Cora Parrisius; Rosa Lavelle-Hill; Detmar Meurers; Ulrich Trautwein; Benjamin Nagengast; Gjergji Kasneci

It is commonly assumed that digital learning environments such as intelligent tutoring systems facilitate and positivelyimpact achievement. This study explores how different groups of students exhibit distinct relationships between behaviorsand academic achievement in an system for English a foreign language. We examined whether these differencesare linked to students’ prior knowledge, personality traits, motivation. collected behavioral trace data from 507 Germanseventh-grade during the 2021/22 school year applied machine models predict performance based onlearning behaviors (best-performing model’s 𝑅2 = .41). To understand impact specific behaviors, we explainableAI method SHAP identified three student clusters with behavior patterns. Subsequent analyses revealed thatthese also varied knowledge motivation: one high average motivation, another withlow third both low Our findings suggestthat are differently success across closely tied their andmotivation. hints towards importance personalizing support individual needs better.