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Cohausz, Lea; Tschalzev, Andrej; Bartelt, Christian; Stuckenschmidt, Heiner – International Educational Data Mining Society, 2023
Demographic features are commonly used in Educational Data Mining (EDM) research to predict at-risk students. Yet, the practice of using demographic features has to be considered extremely problematic due to the data's sensitive nature, but also because (historic and representation) biases likely exist in the training data, which leads to strong…
Descriptors: Information Retrieval, Data Processing, Pattern Recognition, Information Technology
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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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CannistrĂ , 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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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
International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2012
The IADIS CELDA 2012 Conference intention was to address the main issues concerned with evolving learning processes and supporting pedagogies and applications in the digital age. There had been advances in both cognitive psychology and computing that have affected the educational arena. The convergence of these two disciplines is increasing at a…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, Academic Support Services, Access to Computers