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Predicting academic performance: a systematic literature review
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The ability to predict student performance in a course or program creates opportunities to improve educational outcomes. With effective performance prediction approaches, instructors can allocate resources and instruction more accurately. Research in this area seeks to identify features that can be used to make predictions, to identify algorithms that can improve predictions, and to quantify aspects of student performance. Moreover, research in predicting student performance seeks to determine interrelated features and to identify the underlying reasons why certain features work better than others. This working group report presents a systematic literature review of work in the area of predicting student performance. Our analysis shows a clearly increasing amount of research in this area, as well as an increasing variety of techniques used. At the same time, the review uncovered a number of issues with research quality that drives a need for the community to provide more detailed reporting of methods and results and to increase efforts to validate and replicate work.
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- Authors
- Hellas, A., Ihantola, P., Petersen, A., Ajanovski, V. V., Gutica, M., Hynninen, T., Knutas, A., Leinonen, J., Messom, C., & Liao, S. N.
- Affiliations
- University of Helsinki (FI)
- University of Toronto (CA)
- Ss. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje (MK)
- British Columbia Institute of Technology (CA)
- South Eastern Finland University of Applied Sciences (FI)
- Lappeenranta-Lahti University of Technology (FI)
- Monash University (AU)
- University of California San Diego (US)
- ORCID
- Venue
- Proceedings Companion of the 23rd Annual ACM Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education
- Publisher
- ACM
- Published
- 2018-07-02
- Pages
- 175-199
- OpenAlex
- W2909913588
- Cited by
- 355
- References
- 439
- Citations by year
- 2026: 22 · 2025: 43 · 2024: 61 · 2023: 72 · 2022: 62 · 2021: 48 · 2020: 32 · 2019: 12 · 2018: 1
- FWCI
- 4.05
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- gold
- doi.org
- Locations
- Työväentutkimus Vuosikirja (submittedVersion, other-oa)
- ELARTU (Ternopil National Technical University) (submittedVersion)
- Monash University Research Portal (Monash University) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Science Applications › Online Learning and Analytics
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Intelligent Tutoring Systems and Adaptive Learning
- Social Sciences › Education › Educational Outcomes and Influences
- Keywords
- student performance prediction, academic performance, educational data mining, prediction algorithm, research quality, replication, reporting quality, educational outcomes
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