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Development of Machine Learning Models to Predict Student Performance in Computer Literacy Courses


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DOI: https://doi.org/10.15866/irecos.v13i1.16863

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This paper reports on a study carried out to build machine learning models for the purpose of predicting student performance in a second course of a two-course sequence, based on performance in various aspects of the first course’s exam. Detailed data is collected from the first course’s exam, which is a multiple choice exam, using an Optical Mark Recognition scanner. This data is then pre-processed and used to build machine learning models. Several machine learning models are experimented with, yielding excellent results for predicting Pass or Fail (greater than 93% accuracy), validating our hypothesis that our approach can be used to help students with preventative measures in order to increase pass rates in the courses concerned.
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Computational University Administration; Educational Data Mining; Machine Learning; Student Performance Prediction

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