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In educational technology and learning sciences, there are multiple uses for a predictive model of whether a student will perform a task correctly or not. For example, an intelligent tutoring system may use such a model to estimate whether…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2015-01-13 April Galyardt , Ilya Goldin

Identifying the factors that influence student performance in basic education is a central challenge for formulating effective public policies in Brazil. This study introduces a multi-level machine learning approach to classify the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Rodrigo Tertulino , Ricardo Almeida

As the scale and size of the data increases significantly nowadays, federal learning (Bonawitz et al. [2019]) for high performance computing and machine learning has been much more important than ever before (Abadi et al. [2016]). People…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-16 Yanchong Zheng

Mentoring is a key component of scientific achievements, contributing to overall measures of career success for mentees and mentors. A common success metric in the scientific enterprise is acquiring a large research group, which is believed…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2022-08-11 Yanmeng Xing , Ying Fan , Roberta Sinatra , An Zeng

Dropout is used to avoid overfitting by randomly dropping units from the neural networks during training. Inspired by dropout, this paper presents GI-Dropout, a novel dropout method integrating with global information to improve neural…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-10-11 Hengru Xu , Shen Li , Renfen Hu , Si Li , Sheng Gao

This paper examines the pivotal role of dropout techniques in mitigating overfitting in language model training. It conducts a comprehensive investigation into the influence of variable dropout rates on both individual layers and residual…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-03 Qingyang Li , Weimao Ke

In this paper, we study university admissions under a centralized system that uses grades and standardized test scores to match applicants to university programs. We consider affirmative action policies that seek to increase the number of…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-07-03 Corinna Hertweck , Carlos Castillo , Michael Mathioudakis

Machine learning models are often used to make predictions about admissions process outcomes, such as for colleges or jobs. However, such decision processes differ substantially from the conventional machine learning paradigm. Because…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2026-01-19 Evan Dong , Nikhil Garg , Sarah Dean

Students opting for Engineering as their discipline is increasing rapidly. But due to various factors and inappropriate primary education in India, failure rates are high. Students are unable to excel in core engineering because of complex…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-11-14 Muhammed Salman Shamsi , Jhansi Lakshmi

Socio-demographic disparities in STEM degree outcomes impact the diversity of the UK's future workforce, particularly in fields essential for innovation and growth. Despite the importance of institution-level, longitudinal analyses in…

Physics Education · Physics 2024-11-05 Andrew M. Low , Z. Yasemin Kalender

Studying the factors that influence the quality of physics PhD students' doctoral experiences, especially those that motivate them to stay or leave their programs, is critical for providing them with more holistic and equitable support.…

Physics Education · Physics 2024-08-22 Mike Verostek , Casey W. Miller , Benjamin M. Zwickl

Student performance prediction is one of the most important subjects in educational data mining. As a modern technology, machine learning offers powerful capabilities in feature extraction and data modeling, providing essential support for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-06 Yawen Chen , Jiande Sun , Jinhui Wang , Liang Zhao , Xinmin Song , Linbo Zhai

We examine the process of engineering features for developing models that improve our understanding of learners' online behavior in MOOCs. Because feature engineering relies so heavily on human insight, we argue that extra effort should be…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2014-07-22 Kalyan Veeramachaneni , Una-May O'Reilly , Colin Taylor

Now a day's students have a large set of data having precious information hidden. Data mining technique can help to find this hidden information. In this paper, data mining techniques name Byes classification method is used on these data to…

Databases · Computer Science 2012-03-26 Umesh Kumar Pandey , Saurabh Pal

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

The paper is devoted to the study of the model fairness and process fairness of the Russian demographic dataset by making predictions of divorce of the 1st marriage, religiosity, 1st employment and completion of education. Our goal was to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-03 Ibe Chukwuemeka Emmanuel , Ekaterina Mitrofanova

Dropout has been demonstrated as a simple and effective module to not only regularize the training process of deep neural networks, but also provide the uncertainty estimation for prediction. However, the quality of uncertainty estimation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-09 Xinjie Fan , Shujian Zhang , Korawat Tanwisuth , Xiaoning Qian , Mingyuan Zhou

Machine learning methods tend to outperform traditional statistical models at prediction. In the prediction of academic achievement, ML models have not shown substantial improvement over logistic regression. So far, these results have…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-04-21 Sarah Cornell-Farrow , Robert Garrard

To enhance student learning, we demonstrate an experimental study to analyze student learning outcomes in online and in-class sections of a core data communications course of the Undergraduate IT program in the Information Sciences and…

Physics Education · Physics 2017-12-15 Pouyan Ahmadi , Khondkar Islam. Salman Yousaf

Now-a-days the amount of data stored in educational database increasing rapidly. These databases contain hidden information for improvement of students' performance. The performance in higher education in India is a turning point in the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2012-01-18 Brijesh Kumar Bhardwaj , Saurabh Pal