Predicting students’ performance using survey data
| Autor: | Sónia Rolland Sobral, Catarina Felix |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
| Předmět: |
05 social sciences
0211 other engineering and technologies 021107 urban & regional planning 02 engineering and technology Plan (drawing) Educational data mining Unit (housing) Drop out 0502 economics and business ComputingMilieux_COMPUTERSANDEDUCATION Mathematics education Survey data collection Psychology 050203 business & management Abstraction (linguistics) |
| Zdroj: | EDUCON |
| DOI: | 10.1109/educon45650.2020.9125276 |
| Popis: | The acquisition of competences for the development of computer programs is one of the main challenges faced by computer science students. As a result of not being able to develop the abilities needed (for example, abstraction), students drop out the subjects and sometimes even the course. There is a need to study the causes of student success (or failure) in introductory curricular units to check for behaviours or characteristics that may be determinant and thus try to prevent and change said causes. The students of one programming curricular unit were invited to answer four surveys. We use machine learning techniques to try to predict the students’ grades based on the answers obtained on the surveys. The results obtained enable us to plan the semester accordingly, by anticipating how many students might need extra support. We hope to increase the students’ motivation and, with this, increase their interest on the subject. This way we aim to accomplish our ultimate goal: reducing the drop out and increasing the overall average student performance. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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