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Bias detection and mitigation is an active area of research in machine learning. This work extends previous research done by the authors to provide a rigorous and more complete analysis of the bias found in AI predictive models. Admissions…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-12-04 Kelly Van Busum , Shiaofen Fang

Identifying the factors that influence academic performance is an essential part of educational research. Previous studies have documented the importance of personality traits, class attendance, and social network structure. Because most of…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2018-04-10 Valentin Kassarnig , Enys Mones , Andreas Bjerre-Nielsen , Piotr Sapiezynski , David Dreyer Lassen , Sune Lehmann

Improving undergraduate success in STEM requires identifying actionable factors that impact student outcomes, allowing institutions to prioritize key leverage points for change. We examined academic, demographic, and institutional factors…

Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) have become popular platforms for online learning. While MOOCs enable students to study at their own pace, this flexibility makes it easy for students to drop out of class. In this paper, our goal is to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-06 Byungsoo Jeon , Namyong Park , Seojin Bang

Online learning and MOOCs have become increasingly popular in recent years, and the trend will continue, given the technology boom. There is a dire need to observe learners' behavior in these online courses, similar to what instructors do…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Aditya Panwar , Ashwin T S , Ramkumar Rajendran , Kavi Arya

Social integration theories suggest that students embedded in supportive peer networks are less likely to drop out. In learning analytics, this has motivated the use of social network analysis (SNA) from institutional co-enrolment data to…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-11-25 H. R. Paz

The rise in popularity of physical activity trackers provides extensive opportunities for research on personal health, however, barriers such as compliance attrition can lead to substantial losses in data. As such, insights into student's…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2018-04-13 Louis Faust , Priscilla Jiménez , David Hachen , Omar Lizardo , Aaron Striegel , Nitesh V. Chawla

Creating a study program for optimal academic completion is a complex assignment. Especially programs in the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics field are known for extended completion time as well as high drop-out rates…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Marcel Dröscher , Alpar Gür , Nicolas Rehbach

Many studies in educational data mining address specific learner groups, such as first-in-family to attend Higher Education, or focus on differences in characteristics such as gender or ethnicity, with the aim of predicting performance and…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2022-12-23 Robert D. Macredie , Martin Shepperd , Tommaso Turchi , Terry Young

Learners regularly abandon online coding tutorials when they get bored or frustrated, but there are few techniques for anticipating this abandonment to intervene. In this paper, we examine the feasibility of predicting abandonment with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-02-21 An Yan , Michael J. Lee , Andrew J. Ko

The main objective of higher education is to provide quality education to students. One way to achieve highest level of quality in higher education system is by discovering knowledge for prediction regarding enrolment of students in a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-03-19 Surjeet Kumar Yadav , Brijesh Bharadwaj , Saurabh Pal

The study explores the potential of AI technologies in personalized learning, suggesting the prediction of academic success through leadership personality traits and machine learning modelling. The primary data were obtained from 129…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Nitsa J Herzog , Rejwan Bin Sulaiman , David J Herzog , Rose Fong

This study analyzes patterns of physical, mental, lifestyle, and personality factors in college students in different periods over the course of a semester and models their relationships with students' academic performance. The data…

Early identification of student success is crucial for enabling timely interventions, reducing dropout rates, and promoting on time graduation. In educational settings, AI powered systems have become essential for predicting student…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Anca Muresan , Mihaela Cardei , Ionut Cardei

Science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) fields play growing roles in national and international economies by driving innovation and generating high salary jobs. Yet, the US is lagging behind other highly industrialized nations in…

Other Statistics · Statistics 2017-08-31 Lovenoor Aulck , Rohan Aras , Lysia Li , Coulter L'Heureux , Peter Lu , Jevin West

Higher education dropout constitutes a critical challenge for tertiary education systems worldwide. While machine learning techniques can achieve high predictive accuracy on selected datasets, their adoption by policymakers remains limited…

Applications · Statistics 2025-05-13 Andrea Nigri , Massimo Bilancia , Barbara Cafarelli , Samuele Magro

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

In this work, we present a machine learning approach for predicting early dropouts of an active and healthy ageing app. The presented algorithms have been submitted to the IFMBE Scientific Challenge 2022, part of IUPESM WC 2022. We have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-02 Vasileios Perifanis , Ioanna Michailidi , Giorgos Stamatelatos , George Drosatos , Pavlos S. Efraimidis

Overfitting is a common problem in machine learning, which means the model too closely fits the training data while performing poorly in the test data. Among various methods of coping with overfitting, dropout is one of the representative…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-17 Yangkun Li , Weizhi Ma , Chong Chen , Min Zhang , Yiqun Liu , Shaoping Ma , Yuekui Yang

This study is motivated by the magnitude of the problem of Louisiana high school dropout and its negative impacts on individual and public well-being. Our goal is to predict students who are at risk of high school dropout, by examining…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-30 Marmar Orooji , Jianhua Chen