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Predicting the performance of students early and as accurately as possible is one of the biggest challenges of educational institutions. Analyzing the performance of students early can help in finding the strengths and weakness of students…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2021-12-03 Aaditya Bhusal

We consider the problem of assessing the changing performance levels of individual students as they go through online courses. This student performance (SP) modeling problem is a critical step for building adaptive online teaching systems.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-09 Robin Schmucker , Jingbo Wang , Shijia Hu , Tom M. Mitchell

Online tools provide unique access to research students' study habits and problem-solving behavior. In MOOCs, this online data can be used to inform instructors and to provide automatic guidance to students. However, these techniques may…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2019-04-17 Adithya Sheshadri , Niki Gitinabard , Collin F. Lynch , Tiffany Barnes , Sarah Heckman

MOOCs offer free and open access to a wide audience, but completion rates remain low, often due to a lack of personalized content. To address this issue, it is essential to predict learner performance in order to provide tailored feedback.…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Anass El Ayady , Maxime Devanne , Germain Forestier , Nour El Mawas

This paper explores advancements in Artificial Intelligence technologies to enhance classroom learning, highlighting contributions from companies like IBM, Microsoft, Google, and ChatGPT, as well as the potential of brain signal analysis.…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Shadeeb Hossain

Educational stakeholders are often particularly interested in sparse, delayed student outcomes, like end-of-year statewide exams. The rare occurrence of such assessments makes it harder to identify students likely to fail such assessments,…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-01-17 Ge Gao , Amelia Leon , Andrea Jetten , Jasmine Turner , Husni Almoubayyed , Stephen Fancsali , Emma Brunskill

In massive open online courses (MOOCs), peer grading serves as a critical tool for scaling the grading of complex, open-ended assignments to courses with tens or hundreds of thousands of students. But despite promising initial trials, it…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-07-11 Chris Piech , Jonathan Huang , Zhenghao Chen , Chuong Do , Andrew Ng , Daphne Koller

Computer science's increased recognition as a prominent field of study has attracted students with diverse academic backgrounds. This has significantly increased the already high failure rates in introductory courses. To address this…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Eric Hics , Vinhthuy Phan , Kriangsiri Malasri

In order to obtain reliable accuracy estimates for automatic MOOC dropout predictors, it is important to train and test them in a manner consistent with how they will be used in practice. Yet most prior research on MOOC dropout prediction…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-02-22 Jacob Whitehill , Kiran Mohan , Daniel Seaton , Yigal Rosen , Dustin Tingley

Many researchers have studied student academic performance in supervised and unsupervised learning using numerous data mining techniques. Neural networks often need a greater collection of observations to achieve enough predictive ability.…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2021-08-18 Adeniyi Jide Kehinde , Abidemi Emmanuel Adeniyi , Roseline Oluwaseun Ogundokun , Himanshu Gupta , Sanjay Misra

The on-time graduation rate among universities in Puerto Rico is significantly lower than in the mainland United States. This problem is noteworthy because it leads to substantial negative consequences for the student, both socially and…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Ramineh Lopez-Yazdani , Roberto Rivera

With the development of MOOCs massive open online courses, increasingly more subjects can be studied online. Researchers currently show growing interest in the field of MOOCs, including dropout prediction, cheating detection and achievement…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-08-06 Shaojie Qu , Kan Li , Zheyi Fan , Sisi Wu , Xinyi Liu , Zhiguo Huang

Predictive models of student success in Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) are a critical component of effective content personalization and adaptive interventions. In this article we review the state of the art in predictive models of…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2018-04-23 Josh Gardner , Christopher Brooks

Machine learning algorithms have recently been used to predict students' performance in an introductory physics class. The prediction model classified students as those likely to receive an A or B or students likely to receive a grade of C,…

Physics Education · Physics 2020-11-04 Jie Yang , Seth DeVore , Dona Hewagallage , Paul Miller , Qing X. Ryan , John Stewart

Detecting abnormal behaviors of students in time and providing personalized intervention and guidance at the early stage is important in educational management. Academic performance prediction is an important building block to enabling this…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2019-03-19 Huaxiu Yao , Defu Lian , Yi Cao , Yifan Wu , Tao Zhou

Traditional learning systems have responded quickly to the COVID pandemic and moved to online or distance learning. Online learning requires a personalization method because the interaction between learners and instructors is minimal, and…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2022-09-27 Ahmad Mousa Altamimi , Mohammad Azzeh , Mahmoud Albashayreh

An enduring issue in higher education is student retention to successful graduation. National statistics indicate that most higher education institutions have four-year degree completion rates around 50 percent, or just half of their…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-10-08 Mack Sweeney , Huzefa Rangwala , Jaime Lester , Aditya Johri

Currently, college-going students are taking longer to graduate than their parental generations. Further, in the United States, the six-year graduation rate has been 59% for decades. Improving the educational quality by training…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-02-28 Qian Hu , Huzefa Rangwala

Course enrollment recommendation is a relevant task that helps university students decide what is the best combination of courses to enroll in the next term. In particular, recommender system techniques like matrix factorization and…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-11-26 Nicolas Araque , Germano Rojas , Maria Vitali

Analytical models developed in offline settings with pre-prepared data are typically used to predict students' performance. However, when data are available over time, this learning method is not suitable anymore. Online learning is…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Chahrazed Labba , Anne Boyer