An overview and comparison of supervised data mining techniques for student exam performance prediction

By Nikola M. Tomasevic, Nikola Gvozdenovic, S. Vranes. Comput. Educ., 2020

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Abstract Recent increase in the availability of learning data has given educational data mining an importance and momentum, in order to better understand and optimize the learning process and environments in which it occurs. The aim of this paper is to provide a comprehensive analysis and comparison of state of the art supervised machine learning techniques applied for solving the task of student exam performance prediction, i.e. discovering students at a “high risk” of dropping out from the course, and predicting their future achievements, such as for instance, the final exam scores. For both classification and regression tasks, the overall highest precision was obtained with artificial neural networks by feeding the student engagement data and past performance data, while the usage of demographic data did not show significant influence on the precision of predictions. To exploit the full potential of the student exam performance prediction, it was concluded that adequate data acquisition functionalities and the student interaction with the learning environment is a prerequisite to ensure sufficient amount of data for analysis.

Subfields: Computer Science Applications

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Citations in the corpus

• Artificial intelligence in online higher education: A systematic review of empirical research from 2011 to 2020 (2022, methodology): “The prediction of student academic performance help identifies the students who have difficulties understanding the course materials or who are at risk of failing the exam (Tomasevic et  al., 2020).”
• Integration of artificial intelligence performance prediction and learning analytics to improve student learning in online engineering course (2023, methodology): “AI performance prediction model has been used as a promising method in online higher education to accurately predict and monitor students’ learning performance using student learning data and AI algorithms (Aydogdu, 2021; Sandoval et al., 2018; Tomasevic et al., 2020).”