Artificial neural network model to predict student performance using nonpersonal information

Chavez, Heyul; Chavez-Arias, Bill; Contreras-Rosas, Sebastian; Álvarez-Rodríguez, José María; Raymundo, Carlos

doi:10.3389/feduc.2023.1106679

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“…In Addition, ref. [29] developed an artificial neural network designed to predict a student's likelihood of passing a specific course, importantly, without relying on personal or sensitive information that could infringe on student privacy. The model was trained using data from 32,000 students at The Open University in the United Kingdom, incorporating details such as the number of attempts at the course, the average number of assessments, the course pass rate, the average engagement with online materials, and the total number of clicks within the virtual learning environment.…”

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Advanced Deep Learning Model for Predicting the Academic Performances of Students in Educational Institutions

Baniata,

Kang,

Alsharaiah

et al. 2024

Applied Sciences

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Educational institutions are increasingly focused on supporting students who may be facing academic challenges, aiming to enhance their educational outcomes through targeted interventions. Within this framework, leveraging advanced deep learning techniques to develop recommendation systems becomes essential. These systems are designed to identify students at risk of underperforming by analyzing patterns in their historical academic data, thereby facilitating personalized support strategies. This research introduces an innovative deep learning model tailored for pinpointing students in need of academic assistance. Utilizing a Gated Recurrent Neural Network (GRU) architecture, the model is rich with features such as a dense layer, max-pooling layer, and the ADAM optimization method used to optimize performance. The effectiveness of this model was tested using a comprehensive dataset containing 15,165 records of student assessments collected across several academic institutions. A comparative analysis with existing educational recommendation models, like Recurrent Neural Network (RNN), AdaBoost, and Artificial Immune Recognition System v2, highlights the superior accuracy of the proposed GRU model, which achieved an impressive overall accuracy of 99.70%. This breakthrough underscores the model’s potential in aiding educational institutions to proactively support students, thereby mitigating the risks of underachievement and dropout.

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Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

Advanced Deep Learning Model for Predicting the Academic Performances of Students in Educational Institutions

Baniata,

Kang,

Alsharaiah

et al. 2024

Applied Sciences

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“…Heyul Chavez et al [3] predicted students' academic performance using ANN. The system used the Open University of the United Kingdom dataset, which contains 32,000 student's data.…”

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“…Many ML methods are used to forecast student performance in online courses, including Random Forest (RF), Support Vector Machine (SVM), Naive Bayes (NB), and Logistic Regression (LR). It generates two sorts of output: pass, the learner will complete the course successfully, and fail, the learner might not [3]. Teachers can gain a better grasp of their data by utilizing ML techniques.…”

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A Systematic Literature Review of Student Performance Prediction Techniques in Virtual Learning Environment

Thilagavathi,

Anuratha,

Elamparithi

2023

ijmst

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The virtual learning environment (VLE) is essential today and widely used globally for information exchange. Compared to in-person lectures, a VLE aids distant learning, although it might be challenging to maintain constant student interest. Academic activities are not actively pursued by students, which has an impact on their learning curves. The primary goal of this review is to impart a thorough knowledge and comprehension of various techniques, including machine learning (ML) and deep learning (DL), which are utilized for predicting student progress and performance and, consequently, how these prediction techniques help to find the most crucial student attribute for prediction. Additionally, this analysis reveals a rising trend in the volume and diversity of this field’s research. At the same time, the assessment revealed several problems with research quality that highlight the need for the community to strengthen efforts to validate and replicate work and to describe methods and outcomes in greater detail. It can help teachers, parents, students, and tutors decide on the appropriate learning support for their charges when taking online courses.

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“…Another encouraging work on the development of a suitable neural network model to accurately predict the probability that a student will pass an examination can be seen to have used ten characteristic attributes as the input variables for a three-layer ANN (11) . The said model has no need to infringe students' personal information, but has successfully demonstrated that the ANN model is superior to Naïve Bayes algorithm, Decision trees/random forests or Support vector machine (SVM)/support vector regression (SVR) in terms of ability to predict the academic performance of students at 83% accuracy level.…”

Section: Artificial Neural Network (Ann)mentioning

confidence: 99%

Predictive Analytics of a Community Survey Data by Artificial Neural Network - A Subset of Machine Learning

Chopra,

Jain,

Saxena

et al. 2023

IJST

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Objective: To evaluate the capacity of artificial neural network modeling in quantification of relative contribution of various factors towards happiness index of university faculty members and to adjudge the degree of agreement with the results of descriptive statistical analysis under hard societal situation. Methods: A relational-research is conducted by descriptive statistics and ANN modeling with 93 variables, grouped into 24 major variables. The primary data are obtained through surveying after random convenient sampling with self-administered questionnaire based on five-point Likert scale. The study is conducted on 350 faculty members; 273 duly filled in questionnaires are received. The data stemming from varying perceptions of teachers is highly nonlinear. ANN is chosen for its capability to capture high nonlinearity; a gold standard method of comparison with learning tools like multiple regression or logistic regression reveals it superiority; sample size driven predictive uncertainty makes machine learning unsuitable. Findings: ANN modeling shows that the independent variable 'salary' has 46% negative weightage on attainment of happiness whereas, the given working condition related factors record a 45-48% weightage. Descriptive statistics corroborate ANN result, showing that salary, job satisfaction and work environment cause dissatisfaction by recording poor happiness index ~65%. Novelty: The novelty lies in implementation of ANN modeling on community survey generated data for identification of significant affecting happiness of faculty members. Consideration of 93 influencing factors grouped into 24 input variable and to examine if ANN prediction corroborates statistical test of significance adds credence to the novelty of the present approach hitherto unreported.

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Artificial neural network model to predict student performance using nonpersonal information

Cited by 13 publications

References 22 publications

Advanced Deep Learning Model for Predicting the Academic Performances of Students in Educational Institutions

Advanced Deep Learning Model for Predicting the Academic Performances of Students in Educational Institutions

A Systematic Literature Review of Student Performance Prediction Techniques in Virtual Learning Environment

Predictive Analytics of a Community Survey Data by Artificial Neural Network - A Subset of Machine Learning

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