Detecting Behavioral Engagement of Students in the Wild Based on Contextual and Visual Data

Abstract: To investigate the detection of students' behavioral engagement (On-Task vs. Off-Task), we propose a two-phase approach in this study. In Phase 1, contextual logs (URLs) are utilized to assess active usage of the content platform. If there is active use, the appearance information is utilized in Phase 2 to infer behavioral engagement. Incorporating the contextual information improved the overall F1-scores from 0.77 to 0.82. Our cross-classroom and cross-platform experiments showed the proposed generic and multi-modal behavioral engagement models' applicability to a different set of students or different subject areas.