Application of Machine Learning on Student Data for the Appraisal of Academic Performance
Abstract
Education With the inclusion and integration of internet and digital learning Education 2. 0 brought tools in the different context of education. The use of social networking concepts such as chat rooms and the ever-growing student data have placed education on the brink of becoming one of the craters and users of Big Data. As such, this paper explores educational data mining techniques alongside some of the emerging learning analytics with the objective of gaining insight into some of the common learning behaviors among students. The task at hand embraces predictive analytics and it employs decision trees, neural networks, and Naïve Bayes algorithms to classify and cluster student learning patterns that can explain academic performance. Predictive analytics has emerged as one of the tools furthering adaptive learning among other lifechanging novelties. Nonetheless, integration of big data in academia is in its infancy although the western hemisphere is making progress towards the integration. Such progress will increase the relevance of data mining in education and this paper envisages to be among the first ones to address the applicability of machine learning in improving education. Hence, the objective of this paper is to develop predictive models based on the decision tree, neural network, and Naïve Bayes algorithms.
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In [29], predictive analytics using decision trees, neural networks, and Naïve Bayes was used to gain insights into student learning behaviors, cluster learning patterns, and explain academic performance.
“The type of ML method being employed here is predictive analytics, which focuses on making predictions about future outcomes based on historical data.The objective of using predictive analytics, as mentioned, is to gain insights into student learning behaviors, cluster student learning patterns, and explain academic performance.”
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- Authors
- Alloghani, M., Al-Jumeily, D., Hussain, A., Aljaaf, A. J., Mustafina, J., & Petrov, E.
- Affiliations
- Liverpool John Moores University (GB)
- University of Anbar (IQ)
- Kazan Federal University (RU)
- Venue
- 2018 11th International Conference on Developments in eSystems Engineering (DeSE)
- Publisher
- IEEE
- Published
- 2018-09
- Pages
- 157-162
- OpenAlex
- W2916725386
- Cited by
- 14
- References
- 20
- Citations by year
- 2025: 2 · 2024: 2 · 2023: 2 · 2022: 5 · 2021: 2 · 2019: 1
- FWCI
- 0.85
- Type
- conference paper
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- International Conference on Developments in eSystems Engineering (DeSE) (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Science Applications › Online Learning and Analytics
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Information Systems › Data Mining and Machine Learning Applications
- Health Sciences › Health Professions › Health Information Management › Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare
- Keywords
- student performance prediction, student data, educational data mining, learning analytics, big data in education, student learning patterns, adaptive learning, decision tree, artificial neural networks, naive Bayes, predictive analytics
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