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Predictive and statistical analyses for academic advisory support

Other Computer Science 2016-01-19 v1

Abstract

The ability to recognize weakness of students and solving any problem may confront them in timely fashion is always a target of all educational institutions. This study was designed to explore how can predictive and statistical analysis support the academic work of adviser mainly in analysis progress of students . The sample consisted of a total of 249 undergraduate students: 46 % of them were Female and 54% Male. A one-way analysis of variance and t-test were conducted to analysis if there was different behavior in registering courses. Predictive data mining is used for support adviser in decision making. Several classification techniques with 10-fold Cross validation were applied. Among of them, C 4.5 constitutes the best agreement among the finding results.

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@article{arxiv.1601.04244,
  title  = {Predictive and statistical analyses for academic advisory support},
  author = {Mohammed Al-Sarem},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1601.04244},
  year   = {2016}
}
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