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Background: Programming skills are advantageous to navigate today's society, so it is important to teach them to students. However, failure rates for programming courses are high, and especially students who fall behind early in…

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Predictive analytics is widely used in learning analytics, but many resource-constrained institutions lack the capacity to develop their own models or rely on proprietary ones trained in different contexts with little transparency. Transfer…

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Quantitative understanding of relationships between students' behavioral patterns and academic performances is a significant step towards personalized education. In contrast to previous studies that mainly based on questionnaire surveys, in…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-10-23 Yi Cao , Jian Gao , Defu Lian , Zhihai Rong , Jiatu Shi , Qing Wang , Yifan Wu , Huaxiu Yao , Tao Zhou

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

U.S. state education agencies mark schools displaying achievement gaps between demographic subgroups as needing improvement. Some schools may have few students in these subgroups, such that average end-of-year test scores only noisily…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-12-10 Joshua Wasserman , Michael R. Elliott , Ben B. Hansen

The use of the internet, and in particular web browsing, offers many potential advantages for educational institutions as students have access to a wide range of information previously not available. However, there are potential negative…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2011-10-31 Scott Hazelhurst , Yestin Johnson , Ian Sanders

Growth mindset interventions foster students' beliefs that their abilities can grow through effort and appropriate strategies. However, not every student benefits from such interventions - yet research identifying which student factors…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Nigel Bosch

Improvements in performance and approval obtained by first year engineering students from University of Concepcion, Chile, were studied, once a virtual didactic model of multiple-choice exam, was implemented. This virtual learning resource…

Physics Education · Physics 2015-06-12 Leonardo Bennun , Mauricio Santibanez

The field of learning analytics needs to adopt a more rigorous approach for predictive model evaluation that matches the complex practice of model-building. In this work, we present a procedure to statistically test hypotheses about model…

Applications · Statistics 2018-02-19 Josh Gardner , Christopher Brooks

Early prediction of students at risk (STAR) is an effective and significant means to provide timely intervention for dropout and suicide. Existing works mostly rely on either online or offline learning behaviors which are not comprehensive…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-06-09 Yu Yang , Zhiyuan Wen , Jiannong Cao , Jiaxing Shen , Hongzhi Yin , Xiaofang Zhou

Supporting student success requires collaboration among multiple stakeholders. Researchers have explored machine learning models for academic performance prediction; yet key challenges remain in ensuring these models are interpretable,…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-05-12 Han Zhang , Yiyi Ren , Paula S. Nurius , Jennifer Mankoff , Anind K. Dey

Understanding why students stopout will help in understanding how students learn in MOOCs. In this report, part of a 3 unit compendium, we describe how we build accurate predictive models of MOOC student stopout. We document a scalable,…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2014-08-15 Colin Taylor , Kalyan Veeramachaneni , Una-May O'Reilly

Peer grading systems aggregate noisy reports from multiple students to approximate a true grade as closely as possible. Most current systems either take the mean or median of reported grades; others aim to estimate students' grading…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-12-05 Hedayat Zarkoob , Greg d'Eon , Lena Podina , Kevin Leyton-Brown

Despite its crucial role in students' daily lives, commuting time remains an underexplored dimension in higher education research. To address this gap, this study focuses on challenges that students face in urban environments and…

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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

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

Formal software testing education is important for building efficient QA professionals. Various aspects of quality assurance approaches are usually covered in courses for training software testing students. Automated Test Tools is one of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-06-03 Susmita Haldar , Mary Pierce , Luiz Fernando Capretz

This study presents a mathematical optimization framework and preliminary analysis for long-term investment planning in Puerto Rico's electric power system. We develop a high-resolution capacity expansion model to identify least-cost…

Academic Data Mining was one of emerging field which comprise procedure of examined students details by different elements such as earlier semester marks, attendance, assignment, discussion, lab work were of used to improved bachelor…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2018-02-15 Fahad Razaque , Nareena Soomro , Shoaib Ahmed Shaikh , Safeeullah Soomro , Javed Ahmed Samo , Natesh Kumar , Huma Dharejo

One of the important measures of quality of education is the performance of students in the academic settings. Nowadays, abundant data is stored in educational institutions about students which can help to discover insight on how students…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2019-09-18 Ephrem Admasu Yekun , Abrahaley Teklay