Exploring school factors of academic achievement in Macau: The application of educational data mining in Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS) 2016 assessment
Shen Yue
Abstract:International large-scale assessments, provide structured and static data, and due to their extensive databases, they can be considered as a valuable resource for Big Data in Education. In this paper, we propose an educational data mining approach to detect and analyze factors linked to academic performance in Macau schools using data from the Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS) 2016. We conducted a secondary data analysis based on a set of socioeconomic, process, and outcome variables fro… Show more
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