Application of Educational Data Mining Approach for Student Academic Performance Prediction Using Progressive Temporal Data

2021 ◽  
pp. 073563312110487
Author(s):  
Ruangsak Trakunphutthirak ◽  
Vincent C. S. Lee
Keyword(s):  
Machine Learning ◽  
Data Mining ◽  
Academic Performance ◽  
Educational Data Mining ◽  
Internet Usage ◽  
Machine Learning Techniques ◽  
Log Files ◽  
Student Academic Performance ◽  
Learning Techniques ◽  
Usage Data

Educators in higher education institutes often use statistical results obtained from their online Learning Management System (LMS) dataset, which has limitations, to evaluate student academic performance. This study differs from the current body of literature by including an additional dataset that advances the knowledge about factors affecting student academic performance. The key aims of this study are fourfold. First, is to fill the educational literature gap by applying machine learning techniques in educational data mining, making use of the Internet usage behaviour log files and LMS data. Second, LMS data and Internet usage log files were analysed with machine learning techniques for predicting at-risk-of-failure students, with greater explanation added by combining student demographic data. Third, the demographic features help to explain the prediction in understandable terms for educators. Fourth, the study used a range of Internet usage data, which were categorized according to type of usage data and type of web browsing data to increase prediction accuracy.

scholarly journals A Systematic Review of Deep Learning Approaches to Educational Data Mining

Complexity ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 2019 ◽  
pp. 1-22 ◽  
Author(s):  
Antonio Hernández-Blanco ◽  
Boris Herrera-Flores ◽  
David Tomás ◽  
Borja Navarro-Colorado
Keyword(s):  
Machine Learning ◽  
Data Mining ◽  
Deep Learning ◽  
Language Processing ◽  
Educational Data Mining ◽  
Research Field ◽  
Machine Learning Techniques ◽  
Mining Machine ◽  
Learning Approaches ◽  
Learning Techniques

Educational Data Mining (EDM) is a research field that focuses on the application of data mining, machine learning, and statistical methods to detect patterns in large collections of educational data. Different machine learning techniques have been applied in this field over the years, but it has been recently that Deep Learning has gained increasing attention in the educational domain. Deep Learning is a machine learning method based on neural network architectures with multiple layers of processing units, which has been successfully applied to a broad set of problems in the areas of image recognition and natural language processing. This paper surveys the research carried out in Deep Learning techniques applied to EDM, from its origins to the present day. The main goals of this study are to identify the EDM tasks that have benefited from Deep Learning and those that are pending to be explored, to describe the main datasets used, to provide an overview of the key concepts, main architectures, and configurations of Deep Learning and its applications to EDM, and to discuss current state-of-the-art and future directions on this area of research.

scholarly journals Predicting Student Failure in University Examination using Machine Learning Algorithms

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (5) ◽  
pp. 956-959
Keyword(s):  
Machine Learning ◽  
Data Mining ◽  
Performance Management ◽  
Student Performance ◽  
Learning Algorithms ◽  
Educational Data Mining ◽  
Machine Learning Algorithms ◽  
Machine Learning Techniques ◽  
Social Characteristics ◽  
Student Failure

Student Performance Management is one of the key pillars of the higher education institutions since it directly impacts the student’s career prospects and college rankings. This paper follows the path of learning analytics and educational data mining by applying machine learning techniques in student data for identifying students who are at the more likely to fail in the university examinations and thus providing needed interventions for improved student performance. The Paper uses data mining approach with 10 fold cross validation to classify students based on predictors which are demographic and social characteristics of the students. This paper compares five popular machine learning algorithms Rep Tree, Jrip, Random Forest, Random Tree, Naive Bayes algorithms based on overall classifier accuracy as well as other class specific indicators i.e. precision, recall, f-measure. Results proved that Rep tree algorithm outperformed other machine learning algorithms in classifying students who are at more likely to fail in the examinations.

scholarly journals Dr. Phish: Phishing Website Detector

2021 ◽  
Vol 297 ◽  
pp. 01032
Author(s):  
Harish Kumar ◽  
Anshal Prasad ◽  
Ninad Rane ◽  
Nilay Tamane ◽  
Anjali Yeole
Keyword(s):  
Machine Learning ◽  
Data Mining ◽  
Machine Learning Algorithms ◽  
Machine Learning Techniques ◽  
Cyber Crime ◽  
Data Mining Algorithms ◽  
Learning Techniques ◽  
Mining Algorithms ◽  
Host Properties ◽  
New Strategies

Phishing is a common attack on credulous people by making them disclose their unique information. It is a type of cyber-crime where false sites allure exploited people to give delicate data. This paper deals with methods for detecting phishing websites by analyzing various features of URLs by Machine learning techniques. This experimentation discusses the methods used for detection of phishing websites based on lexical features, host properties and page importance properties. We consider various data mining algorithms for evaluation of the features in order to get a better understanding of the structure of URLs that spread phishing. To protect end users from visiting these sites, we can try to identify the phishing URLs by analyzing their lexical and host-based features.A particular challenge in this domain is that criminals are constantly making new strategies to counter our defense measures. To succeed in this contest, we need Machine Learning algorithms that continually adapt to new examples and features of phishing URLs.

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