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Batool, Saba; Rashid, Junaid; Nisar, Muhammad Wasif; Kim, Jungeun; Kwon, Hyuk-Yoon; Hussain, Amir – Education and Information Technologies, 2023
Educational data mining is an emerging interdisciplinary research area involving both education and informatics. It has become an imperative research area due to many advantages that educational institutions can achieve. Along these lines, various data mining techniques have been used to improve learning outcomes by exploring large-scale data that…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Prediction, Data Use, Information Retrieval
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Richard Fendler; David Beard; Jonathan Godbey – Electronic Journal of e-Learning, 2024
The rapid growth of online education, especially since the pandemic, is presenting educators with numerous challenges. Chief among these is concern about academic dishonesty, especially on unproctored online exams. Students cheating on exams is not a new phenomenon. The topic has been discussed and debated within institutions of higher learning,…
Descriptors: Cheating, Computer Assisted Testing, Supervision, Student Behavior
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Shilpa Bhaskar Mujumdar; Haridas Acharya; Shailaja Shirwaikar; Prafulla Bharat Bafna – Journal of Applied Research in Higher Education, 2024
Purpose: This paper defines and assesses student learning patterns under the influence of problem-based learning (PBL) and their classification into a reasonable minimum number of classes. Study utilizes PBL implemented in an undergraduate Statistics and Operations Research course for techno-management students at a private university in India.…
Descriptors: Problem Based Learning, Information Retrieval, Data Analysis, Pattern Recognition
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Wonsun Ryu; Lauren Schudde; Kimberly Pack-Cosme – American Educational Research Journal, 2024
Dual enrollment (DE)--where students earn college credits during high school--is expanding rapidly. To facilitate DE, institutional actors across K-12 schools and colleges must build or repurpose structures across separate organizations to determine course offerings, assignments, modality, and composition. Yet the organization and implications of…
Descriptors: Dual Enrollment, College Credits, Public Schools, High School Students
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Roslan, Muhammad Haziq Bin; Chen, Chwen Jen – Education and Information Technologies, 2023
This study attempts to predict secondary school students' performance in English and Mathematics subjects using data mining (DM) techniques. It aims to provide insights into predictors of students' performance in English and Mathematics, characteristics of students with different levels of performance, the most effective DM technique for students'…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Academic Achievement, English Instruction
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Guan, Connie Qun; Fraundorf, Scott H.; Perfetti, Charles A. – Annals of Dyslexia, 2020
In light of the dramatic growth of Chinese learners worldwide and a need for a cross-linguistic research on Chinese literacy development, this study investigated (a) the effects of character properties (i.e., orthographic consistency and transparency) on character acquisition, and (b) the effects of individual learner differences (i.e.,…
Descriptors: Chinese, Language Acquisition, Pattern Recognition, Alphabets
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Cannistrà, Marta; Masci, Chiara; Ieva, Francesca; Agasisti, Tommaso; Paganoni, Anna Maria – Studies in Higher Education, 2022
This paper combines a theoretical-based model with a data-driven approach to develop an Early Warning System that detects students who are more likely to dropout. The model uses innovative multilevel statistical and machine learning methods. The paper demonstrates the validity of the approach by applying it to administrative data from a leading…
Descriptors: Dropouts, Potential Dropouts, Dropout Prevention, Dropout Characteristics
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Trakunphutthirak, Ruangsak; Lee, Vincent C. S. – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 2022
Educators in higher education institutes often use statistical results obtained from their online Learning Management System (LMS) dataset, which has limitations, to evaluate student academic performance. This study differs from the current body of literature by including an additional dataset that advances the knowledge about factors affecting…
Descriptors: Information Retrieval, Pattern Recognition, Data Analysis, Information Technology
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So, Joseph Chi-ho; Wong, Adam Ka-lok; Tsang, Kia Ho-yin; Chan, Ada Pui-ling; Wong, Simon Chi-wang; Chan, Henry C. B. – Journal of Technology and Science Education, 2023
The project presented in this paper aims to formulate a recommendation framework that consolidates the higher education students' particulars such as their academic background, current study and student activity records, their attended higher education institution's expectations of graduate attributes and self-assessment of their own generic…
Descriptors: Pattern Recognition, Artificial Intelligence, Higher Education, College Students
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Ayton, Katarina – Ethnography and Education, 2012
The focus of this article is children's positioning and agency in a Swedish school class. Drawing on ethnographic data generated during a year-long field study, the actions of three different children are used by the researcher to illustrate how children position themselves and are positioned by others. Using the concept of "professional…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Classroom Environment, Observation, Educational Research
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Saenz, Victor B.; Hatch, Deryl; Bukoski, Beth E.; Kim, Suyun; Lee, Kye-hyoung; Valdez, Patrick – Community College Review, 2011
This study employs survey data from the Center for Community College Student Engagement to examine the similarities and differences that exist across student-level domains in terms of student engagement in community colleges. In total, the sample used in the analysis pools data from 663 community colleges and includes more than 320,000 students.…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Community Colleges, Classification, Multivariate Analysis
Byrd, Nola Butler – Penn GSE Perspectives on Urban Education, 2009
This study examines the historical and contemporary identity development patterns of first, second, and third generation students to determine the attributes students bring with them and how they develop through their experiences in a multicultural counselor training program. The paper examines patterns between groups, followed by a discussion of…
Descriptors: Individual Development, Identification, Cultural Pluralism, Counselor Training
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Willett, Terrence; Hom, Willard – Journal of Applied Research in the Community College, 2007
The authors describe an innovative technique for using Classification and Regression Tree (CART) with student characteristics, including geographical data for analyzing student enrollment patterns between students who enroll within a community college district (stayers) and those who enroll outside the district (movers) at neighboring community…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Enrollment Management, Enrollment, Student Characteristics
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Villaverde, J. E.; Godoy, D.; Amandi, A. – Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 2006
People have unique ways of learning, which may greatly affect the learning process and, therefore, its outcome. In order to be effective, e-learning systems should be capable of adapting the content of courses to the individual characteristics of students. In this regard, some educational systems have proposed the use of questionnaires for…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Computer Assisted Instruction, Web Based Instruction, Student Characteristics
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Serra, M.; Althaus, M.; de Sonneville, L. M. J.; Stant, A. D.; Jackson, A. E.; Minderaa, R. B. – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2003
A study investigated the accuracy and speed of face recognition in 26 children (ages 7-10) with Pervasive Developmental Disorder Not Otherwise Specified. Subjects needed an amount of time to recognize the faces that almost equaled the time they needed to recognize abstract patterns that were difficult to distinguish. (Contains references.)…
Descriptors: Autism, Cognitive Ability, Elementary Education, Facial Expressions