10.6084/m9.figshare.7043471.v1 Yi Cao Yi Cao Jian Gao Jian Gao Defu Lian Defu Lian Zhihai Rong Zhihai Rong Jiatu Shi Jiatu Shi Qing Wang Qing Wang Yifan Wu Yifan Wu Huaxiu Yao Huaxiu Yao Tao Zhou Tao Zhou Supplementary Dataset from Orderliness predicts academic performance: behavioural analysis on campus lifestyle The Royal Society 2018 computational social science campus behaviour academic performance data science orderliness human behaviour 2018-09-04 16:46:30 Dataset https://rs.figshare.com/articles/dataset/Supplementary_Dataset_from_Orderliness_predicts_academic_performance_behavioural_analysis_on_campus_lifestyle/7043471 Quantitative understanding of relationships between students' behavioural patterns and academic performances is a significant step towards personalized education. In contrast to previous studies that mainly based on questionnaire surveys, recent literature suggests that unobtrusive digital data bring us unprecedented opportunities to study students' lifestyles in the campus. In this paper, we collect behavioural records from undergraduate students' (<i>N</i> = 18 960) smart cards and propose two high-level behavioural characters, say orderliness and diligence. The former is a novel entropy-based metric that measures the regularity of campus daily life, which is estimated here based on temporal records of taking showers and having meals. Empirical analyses on such large-scale unobtrusive behavioural data demonstrate that academic performance (GPA) is significantly correlated with orderliness. Furthermore, we show that orderliness is an important feature to predict academic performance, which improves the prediction accuracy even in the presence of students' diligence. Based on these analyses, education administrators could quantitatively understand the major factors leading to excellent or poor performance, detect undesirable abnormal behaviours in time and thus implement effective interventions to better guide students' campus lives in an early stage when necessary.