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Vol.7, No.3, August 2018. ISSN: 2217-8309 eISSN: 2217-8333
TEM Journal
TECHNOLOGY, EDUCATION, MANAGEMENT, INFORMATICS Association for Information Communication Technology Education and Science |
Predicting Student Success Using Data Generated in Traditional Educational Environments
Marian Bucos, Bogdan Drăgulescu
© 2018 Marian Bucos, published by UIKTEN. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License. (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0)
Citation Information: TEM Journal. Volume 7, Issue 3, Pages 617-625, ISSN 2217-8309, DOI: 10.18421/TEM73-19, August 2018.
Received: 30 June 2018
Abstract:
Educational Data Mining (EDM) techniques offer unique opportunities to discover knowledge from data generated in educational environments. These techniques can assist tutors and researchers to predict future trends and behavior of students. This study examines the possibility of only using traditional, already available, course report data, generated over years by tutors, to apply EDM techniques. Based on five algorithms and two cross-validation methods we developed and evaluated five classification models in our experiments to identify the one with the best performance. A time segmentation approach and specific course performance attributes, collected in a classical manner from course reports, were used to determine students' performance. The models developed in this study can be used early in identifying students at risk and allow tutors to improve the academic performance of the students. By following the steps described in this paper other practitioners can revive their old data and use it to gain insight for their classes in the next academic year.
Keywords –Classification, Educational Data Mining, predicting student performance, traditional educational environments. |
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