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Computers and Society · Computer Science 2014-09-09 Nahid Hajizadeh , Marzieh Ahmadzadeh

Student performance modelling (SPM) is a critical step to assessing and improving students performances in their learning discourse. However, most existing SPM are based on statistical approaches, which on one hand are based on probability,…

LLM-as-a-Judge employs large language models (LLMs), such as GPT-4, to evaluate the quality of LLM-generated responses, gaining popularity for its cost-effectiveness and strong alignment with human evaluations. However, training proxy judge…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-19 Zhuo Liu , Moxin Li , Xun Deng , Qifan Wang , Fuli Feng

Adaptive learning systems can produce substantial learning gains, yet many students engage for too brief or too superficial a period to benefit. A central obstacle is measuring effort. Effort during multi-step problem solving is rarely…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Conrad Borchers , Lijin Zhang , Kexin Yang , Tomohiro Nagashima , Benjamin W. Domingue

Predicting students' academic performance has been a research area of interest in recent years with many institutions focusing on improving the students' performance and the education quality. The analysis and prediction of students'…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-06-11 MohammadNoor Injadat , Abdallah Moubayed , Ali Bou Nassif , Abdallah Shami

Latent variable models are powerful tools for modeling complex phenomena involving in particular partially observed data, unobserved variables or underlying complex unknown structures. Inference is often difficult due to the latent…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-06-23 Charlotte Baey , Maud Delattre , Estelle Kuhn , Jean-Benoist Leger , Sarah Lemler

The evaluation of the formative process in the University system has been assuming an ever increasing importance in the European countries. Within this context the analysis of student performance and capabilities plays a fundamental role.…

Applications · Statistics 2012-06-26 Silvia Bianconcini , Silvia Cagnone

Graduation and dropout rates have always been a serious consideration for educational institutions and students. High dropout rates negatively impact both the lives of individual students and institutions. To address this problem, this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-18 Sean Kim , Eliot Yoo , Samuel Kim

A significant body of recent research in the field of Learning Analytics has focused on leveraging machine learning approaches for predicting at-risk students in order to initiate timely interventions and thereby elevate retention and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-26 Teo Susnjak

This paper elaborates how to identify and evaluate causal factors to improve scientific impact. Currently, analyzing scientific impact can be beneficial to various academic activities including funding application, mentor recommendation,…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2022-02-18 Xiangjie Kong , Jun Zhang , Da Zhang , Yi Bu , Ying Ding , Feng Xia

In this study, we examine how event data from campus management systems can be used to analyze the study paths of higher education students. The main goal is to offer valuable guidance for their study planning. We employ process and data…

Student simulation in online education is important to address dynamic learning behaviors of students with diverse backgrounds. Existing simulation models based on deep learning usually need massive training data, lacking prior knowledge in…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-04-12 Songlin Xu , Xinyu Zhang , Lianhui Qin

The quality of assessment determines the quality of learning, and is characterized by validity, reliability and difficulty. Mastery of learning is generally represented by the difficulty levels of assessment items. A very large number of…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2022-06-10 Shilpi Banerjee , N. J. Rao

Creating equitable performance outcomes among students is a focus of many instructors and researchers. One focus of this effort is examining disparities in physics student performance across genders, which is a well-established problem.…

Physics Education · Physics 2017-12-31 Ben Van Dusen , Jayson M. Nissen

Student dropout prediction is an indispensable for numerous intelligent systems to measure the education system and success rate of any university as well as throughout the university in the world. Therefore, it becomes essential to develop…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2014-05-16 Sweta Rai

Mobile applications and other integration of information and communication technology (ICT) have become well-known in education to monitor teaching and learning activities. The analysis of student learning through evaluation is a growing…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-02-08 Ronel B. Dayanghirang , Alexander A. Hernandez

This paper introduces a new spreadsheet tool for adoption by high school or college level physics teachers who use common assessments in a pre-instruction/post-instruction mode to diagnose student learning and teaching effectiveness. The…

Physics Education · Physics 2017-03-14 Gary A. Morris , Paul J. Walter , Spencer Skees , Samantha Schwartz

In this paper we present a method of modeling and analysis that permits the extraction and quantitative display of detailed information about the effects of instruction on a class's knowledge. The method relies on a congitive model that…

Physics Education · Physics 2012-09-05 Lei Bao , Edward F. Redish

In many applications, observed data are influenced by some combination of latent causes. For example, suppose sensors are placed inside a building to record responses such as temperature, humidity, power consumption and noise levels. These…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-07-16 Sinead A. Williamson , Michael Minyi Zhang , Paul Damien

In the context of higher education's evolving dynamics post-COVID-19, this paper assesses the impact of new pedagogical incentives implemented in a first-year undergraduate computing module at University College London. We employ a mixed…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-03-25 Laura J. Johnston , Takoua Jendoubi