Dyslexia Adaptive Learning Model: Student Engagement Prediction Using Machine Learning Approach

Education barriers are synonym with people with dyslexia life experience. People with dyslexia encounter barriers such as in academic related areas, mistreated with negative reaction on their behaviour and limitation to acquire a suitable support to overcome the barriers. Therefore, this work focus on giving the support to help students with dyslexia deal with their difficulty through adaptively sense their behaviour for engagement perspective. For that reason, we apply machine learning approach that utilises Bag of Features (BOF) image classification to predict student engagement towards the learning content. The engagement prediction was relatively using frontal face of the 30 students. We used Speeded-Up Robust Feature (SURF) key point descriptor and clustered using k-Means method for the codebook in this BOF model. Then, we classify the model using 3 types of classifier which are Support Vector Machine (SVM), Naive Bayes and K-Nearest Neighbour (k-NN) to find the best classification result. Through these methods, we managed to get high accuracy with 97-97.8%.