Predicting Student Performance Using Data Mining and Learning Analytics Techniques: A Systematic Literature Review

By Abdallah Namoun, Abdullah Alshanqiti. Applied Sciences, 2020

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The prediction of student academic performance has drawn considerable attention in education. However, although the learning outcomes are believed to improve learning and teaching, prognosticating the attainment of student outcomes remains underexplored. A decade of research work conducted between 2010 and November 2020 was surveyed to present a fundamental understanding of the intelligent techniques used for the prediction of student performance, where academic success is strictly measured using student learning outcomes. The electronic bibliographic databases searched include ACM, IEEE Xplore, Google Scholar, Science Direct, Scopus, Springer, and Web of Science. Eventually, we synthesized and analyzed a total of 62 relevant papers with a focus on three perspectives, (1) the forms in which the learning outcomes are predicted, (2) the predictive analytics models developed to forecast student learning, and (3) the dominant factors impacting student outcomes. The best practices for conducting systematic literature reviews, e.g., PICO and PRISMA, were applied to synthesize and report the main results. The attainment of learning outcomes was measured mainly as performance class standings (i.e., ranks) and achievement scores (i.e., grades). Regression and supervised machine learning models were frequently employed to classify student performance. Finally, student online learning activities, term assessment grades, and student academic emotions were the most evident predictors of learning outcomes. We conclude the survey by highlighting some major research challenges and suggesting a summary of significant recommendations to motivate future works in this field.

Subfields: Computer Networks and Communications, Computer Science Applications

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A Systematic Literature Review of Student’ Performance Prediction Using Machine Learning Techniques (2021, background): “Although there is one recent publication on the Systematic Literature Review (SLR) of EDM [11], the inclusion and exclusion criteria are different, and they targeted historical data only as compared to our work which is more inclined on recent advances of last 13 years”