Evaluating the effectiveness of educational data mining techniques for early prediction of students' academic failure in introductory programming courses
Evaluating the effectiveness of educational data mining techniques for early prediction of students' academic failure in introductory programming courses
E. Costa,B. Neto,2 Authors,Joilson B. A. Rego
2017 · DOI: 10.1016/j.chb.2017.01.047
Computers in Human Behavior · 405 Citations
TLDR
The results showed that the techniques analyzed are able to early identify students likely to fail, the effectiveness of some of these techniques is improved after applying the data preprocessing and/or algorithms fine-tuning, and the support vector machine technique outperforms the other ones in a statistically significant way.