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Jing Chen; Bei Fang; Hao Zhang; Xia Xue – Interactive Learning Environments, 2024
High dropout rate exists universally in massive open online courses (MOOCs) due to the separation of teachers and learners in space and time. Dropout prediction using the machine learning method is an extremely important prerequisite to identify potential at-risk learners to improve learning. It has attracted much attention and there have emerged…
Descriptors: MOOCs, Potential Dropouts, Prediction, Artificial Intelligence
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Polyzou, Agoritsa; Nikolakopoulos, Athanasios N.; Karypis, George – International Educational Data Mining Society, 2019
Course selection is a crucial and challenging problem that students have to face while navigating through an undergraduate degree program. The decisions they make shape their future in ways that they cannot conceive in advance. Available departmental sample degree plans are not personalized for each student, and personal discussion time with an…
Descriptors: Markov Processes, Course Selection (Students), Undergraduate Students, Decision Making
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Ansari, Asim; Iyengar, Raghuram – Psychometrika, 2006
We develop semiparametric Bayesian Thurstonian models for analyzing repeated choice decisions involving multinomial, multivariate binary or multivariate ordinal data. Our modeling framework has multiple components that together yield considerable flexibility in modeling preference utilities, cross-sectional heterogeneity and parameter-driven…
Descriptors: Markov Processes, Monte Carlo Methods, Computation, Bayesian Statistics
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Barnes, Tiffany, Ed.; Chi, Min, Ed.; Feng, Mingyu, Ed. – International Educational Data Mining Society, 2016
The 9th International Conference on Educational Data Mining (EDM 2016) is held under the auspices of the International Educational Data Mining Society at the Sheraton Raleigh Hotel, in downtown Raleigh, North Carolina, in the USA. The conference, held June 29-July 2, 2016, follows the eight previous editions (Madrid 2015, London 2014, Memphis…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Evidence Based Practice, Inquiry, Science Instruction