scholarly journals Comparison of methods on a model for predicting university success

2010 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jean-Philippe Vandamme
Keyword(s):  
Academic Failure ◽  
Theoretical Models ◽  
Correct Prediction ◽  
First Year ◽  
First Year Students ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Diverse Data ◽  
University Success ◽  
Extract Information

For a long time, academic failure in the first year of university has fueled many debates. Many educational psychologists have tried to understand it and then explain it. Many statisticians have tried to predict it. Our research aims to establish a model making it possible to determine, as early as possible in the year, the group of first-year students on whom priority must be given to the educational resources available to improve the success rate. For this, we have transposed in the form of a questionnaire the hypotheses posed in many theoretical models. Then, after having collected sufficient and diverse data via this questionnaire, the objective was to extract information via statistical methods or data mining and thus allow the classification of students into three classes as homogeneous as possible. This article describes the methodology adopted, the variables that were analyzed and the methods that were used and compared. With the parallelization of the results provided by the various methods (discriminant analyzes, regressions, approximate sets, decision trees, etc.), it is possible to highlight their differences in performance. Indeed, some methods have been shown to be more effective in terms of correct prediction rates made, while others have been particularly interesting for their ability to highlight the predictors of university success.

scholarly journals Academic Failure at University and Data Processing Methods Based on Decision Trees and Neural Networks: Research Methodology

2021 ◽  
Vol 07 (10) ◽  
Author(s):  
Smail ADMEUR ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Neural Networks ◽  
Artificial Neural Networks ◽  
Decision Tree ◽  
Research Methodology ◽  
Academic Failure ◽  
First Year ◽  
First Year Students ◽  
Research Article ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Data Processing Methods

For a long time, academic failure among university students sparked heated controversy. Many educational psychologists try to figure it out and then explain it. Statisticians have tried to predict it. Our research (article) aims to classify students into several categories, as well as to use the decision tree and artificial neural networks to classify first-year students and identify variables that may explain the problem.

scholarly journals Exploring the Key Factors Influencing the Academic Performance of First Year Students at Undergraduate Level in Bangladesh

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 288
Author(s):  
Md. Solaiman Jony
Keyword(s):  
Academic Performance ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Success Factors ◽  
Academic Failure ◽  
Influential Factor ◽  
Dropout Rates ◽  
First Year ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
First Year Students ◽  
Undergraduate Level

Since the number of students entering into the higher education system is increasing along with the dropout rates, therefore it is important for the institutions to identify the reasons that impact students’ academic performance in order to introduce the provision for necessary support for the students. This study is stimulated by the demand to determine such factors at undergraduate level that cause academic failure and dropout rates. Therefore, this study attempts to investigate what students perceive as the key influential factor the effects the academic performance of first year undergraduate students at university level. A quantitative research approach was followed to conduct the study. A survey was designed with questionnaires and was administered. Total 450 first year students, both from public and private universities in Bangladesh, were selected by convenience and stratified simple random sampling. The findings of this study disclosed that appropriate choice of course of study; students’ interest in the subject; regular attendance at lectures; timely and regular examination preparation; teachers’ pedagogical knowledge and skills; effective written communications skills; effective study methods are the topmost success factors that influence students’ academic performance. Oppositely, lack of interest in the course content; inadequate or poor exam preparation; irregular attendance at lectures/tutorials; late submission of assignments; lack of self-discipline, self-motivation and confidence; inability to distinguish between important and unimportant information; heavy course workload; inefficient time management reverse the academic performance of the students.

scholarly journals Programa de orientación entre iguales en educación superior para la adquisición de competencias instrumentales

2021 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 132
Author(s):  
Noemí Merayo Álvarez ◽  
Inés Ruiz-Requies ◽  
Nicole Ávalos Díaz
Keyword(s):  
Academic Failure ◽  
High Rate ◽  
First Year ◽  
First Year Students ◽  
Academic Difficulties ◽  
Four Dimensions ◽  
Lack Of Information ◽  
New Students ◽  
Mixed Approach ◽  
The University

RESUMENLas necesidades detectadas en los estudiantes de nuevo ingreso de las Escuelas Técnicas Superiores de Ingenieros de Telecomunicación han llevado a plantear iniciativas de mentoría formal en sus grados. Estas carencias están relacionadas con una escasa orientación previa a la Universidad, gran heterogeneidad del alumnado, alto índice de fracaso académico en el primer curso y falta de información acerca de la inserción laboral. Este artículo pretende dar a conocer el programa MENTUm cuya finalidad es que estudiantes de últimos cursos ofrezcan apoyo e incentiven el aprendizaje e integración de estudiantes de primero con el objetivo de detectar las dificultades personales y académicas que presentan y desarrollar competencias instrumentales. La metodología de investigación empleada consiste en un Estudio de Caso desde un enfoque mixto, empleando técnicas tanto cuantitativas como cualitativas con la finalidad de alcanzar la mayor comprensión del programa en una de sus cuatro dimensiones: dar respuesta a las necesidades del alumnado de nuevo ingreso. Para la recogida de información, se han empleado tres técnicas de recogida de datos: cuestionarios, observaciones y entrevistas. Los resultados muestran que las dificultades personales tienen que ver con la falta de concentración, planificación y organización del tiempo, mientras que las dificultades académicas tienen que ver más con la falta de conocimientos previos ante los contenidos de las asignaturas. Como conclusiones hemos constatado que los estudiantes son conscientes desde su ingreso a la Universidad de la importancia de desarrollar competencias instrumentales de aprendizaje autónomo y planificación a medida que transcurre el año académico.ABSTRACT The needs detected in the new students of the Higher Technical Schools of Telecommunication Engineers have led to propose initiatives of formal mentoring in their grades. These shortcomings are related to a poor orientation prior to the University, great heterogeneity of the students, high rate of academic failure in the first year and lack of information about the labor insertion. This article describes the MENTUm program, whose purpose is for senior students to support and encourage the learning and integration of first-year students with the aim of detecting the personal and academic difficulties they present and developing some instrumental skills. The research methodology used consists of a Case Study from a mixed approach, using both quantitative and qualitative techniques in order to achieve a greater understanding of the program in one of its four dimensions: respond to the needs of new students. For the collection of information, three data collection techniques have been used: questionnaires, observations and interviews. The results show that personal difficulties have to do with the lack of concentration, planning and organization of time, while academic difficulties have more to do with the lack of prior knowledge regarding the contents of the subjects. As conclusions, we have verified that the students are aware from their beginning at the University of the importance of developing instrumental skills of autonomous learning and planning as the academic year progresses.

scholarly journals Status and structure of morbidity of university students

2020 ◽  
pp. 98-102
Author(s):  
O. Kuznietsova ◽  
A. Korolevich ◽  
A. Filipsky
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
Educational Institution ◽  
First Year ◽  
Medical Group ◽  
First Year Students ◽  
The Third ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Health Disorders ◽  
Academic Year

The physical education system of the students with chronic diseases, health disorders, congenital anomalies, and low level of physical development and physical fitness, does not sufficiently address efficiency restoration and ensuring normal life. The analysis of literature sources actualized the problem and conclusively proved the need for a comprehensive, systematic study of the health of young students. The aim of the study: to monitor the number of students with health disorders at higher education institutions. The research methods: literary, conceptual and comparative analysis; the analysis of the medical examination of students; pedagogical observation; statistical methods. The object of observation was the students of higher education institutions of a special medical group in the amount of 867 people. Studies conducted for a long time in the educational institution "PolesU", confirmed the superiority of cardiovascular diseases among other pathologies (22.15%). In the 2014/2015 academic year, diseases were recorded in 26.51% of students of the special medical group. The reduction in the number of students enrolled in SMG by the third year indicates that due attention is being paid to correcting their physical condition and improving their health. The largest number of students among those classified by health status as a special medical group was the first-year students.

scholarly journals Tinjauan Terhadap Upaya STAIN Curup Dalam Meningkatkan Kemampuan Baca Al-Qur’an Mahasiswa

2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 67
Author(s):  
H Hardivizon ◽  
A Anrial
Keyword(s):  
First Year ◽  
Low Achievement ◽  
First Year Students ◽  
Low Ability

This study was designed to evaluate the efforts that was made by STAIN Curup in improving the ability of students to recite the Qur’an through Tahsin al-qirâ'ah courses. The goal was to determine how effective these efforts can improve the students to recite the Qur’an. This study was an evaluation which is a systematic scientific procedures that performed to measure the results of a program, whether or not the objectives planned is suitable. By collecting, analyzing and reviewing the implemention of the programs that was conducted objectively. Then formulating and defining the policy in advance to consider the positive values and benefits of the program. The informants of this study were the Head of STAIN Curup, Tahsin al-qira'ah Lecturers, and the second or third-year students. From the result of research, it was found that the efforts made by STAIN Curup to improve students’s ability to recite al-Quran by requiring first-year students took tahsin al-qiraah courses was not very effective. It was shown from the low ability of the second and third students to recite al-Quran who have passed the course. 46.6% of students had low achievement. This happened because: (1) lack of time lecturing; (2) the lack of oversight and evaluation of the program by the Head of STAIN Curup, and (3) classification of students which were not based on the ability.

scholarly journals TYPICAL ERRORS IN THE USE OF VERBAL FORMS AS A CONSEQUENCE OF GAPS IN SCHOOL EDUCATION

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (193) ◽  
pp. 422-428
Author(s):  
Olesia Protsenko ◽  
Keyword(s):  
School Education ◽  
First Year ◽  
First Year Students ◽  
Form Errors ◽  
Part Of Speech ◽  
Verb Forms ◽  
National University ◽  
Lexical Errors ◽  
Passive Verbs

Verb is the most important part of speech because it is the syntactic and communicative center of the sentence. So the verb form errors is an important problem of culture of language. The mediaproducts (215 texts of different information genres) of first year students from the Institute of Journalism of the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv was analyzed. A classification of tipical errors of verbs forms was suggested. Gaps in the school education (on the material of schools textbooks was analyzed) are the main cause of the following verb errors: verb-conjunction "to be" in the Present, verb nouns, passive verbs, passive participle, active participle, impersonal verbs, redundant constructs, lexical errors. The topics to supplement the school program of language was suggested. It is recommended to omit the verb-conjunction in the present tense; prefer verb forms, not nouns; use active constructions, not passive ones; not to use active present participles; the instrumental case of nouns should be used in the instrumental, not in the subjective sense; use adjectives as a predicate to describe the subject; not to use stationery and tautological constructions; distinguish the meaning of Ukrainian and Russian tokens.

DISTANCE LEARNING: BASED ON THE MATERIALS OF A SOCIOLOGICAL SURVEY

2021 ◽  
pp. 16-21
Author(s):  
A.B. Orishev ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Distance Learning ◽  
Transfer Students ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
First Year ◽  
Topical Issue ◽  
Scientific Result ◽  
First Year Students ◽  
Difficult Situation ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Russian Universities

The article raises the topical issue of the transition to distance learning, when Russian universities in the fall of 2020 were forced to re-apply this format. The article shows the difficult situation that has devel-oped in the Timiryazev Academy in the fall of 2020. Under the threat of the spread of Covid-19, the univer-sity's management was forced to make a decision to transfer students to distance learning. The author draws attention to the fact that interest in the topic of distance learning in our country has existed for a long time. However, it has only recently become particularly acute. The article analyzes the results of a sociological survey devoted to the transfer of 1st-year students to a distance learning format. It is shown what opportuni-ties and advantages, in the opinion of students, this transition provided them. The analysis of the shortcom-ings of distance learning named by students is carried out. Special attention is paid to student proposals aimed at improving it. A critical analysis of these proposals is given. The main scientific result: it is shown that the transition to distance learning did not become fatal for students of the Timiryazev Academy. Most of the first-year students took this transition as a forced measure and were able to adapt to the current situation.

scholarly journals LINGUISTIC FEATURES OF THE STUDENT ABSTRACT AS A SPECIFIC PART OF THE EDUCATIONAL PROCESS

2020 ◽  
pp. 75-79
Author(s):  
N. Ye. Koshil ◽  
N. V. Rybina ◽  
O. S. Hyryla
Keyword(s):  
Educational Process ◽  
Student Writing ◽  
First Year ◽  
Linguistic Features ◽  
First Year Students ◽  
Successful Communication ◽  
Speech Genres ◽  
The University

The article is dedicated to the study of student writing abstract specificity by analyzing its linguistic features. The authors study the communicative and genre nature of the training abstract and propose the  classification of student abstracts according to the  different features. The analysis of the main types of speech genres that are inherent in students’ lecture notes are carried out: informative, compelling, etiquette and evaluating. It has been conducted a survey to find out the level of students’ in writing abstracts and distinguish the most popular forms of abstract’s writing. The analysis of multilevel criteria has allowed the authors to propose the functionally oriented typology of student abstracts, which takes into account the outside of their design, the specifics of the informative-semantic expression and composition, as well as lexical and grammatical indicators, including syntactic and punctuation. It has also been considered the role of the author in the abstract’s form as a participant of the communication, who seeks to successful communication with the lecturer.  The attention is focused on structural, vocabulary and syntactic components of the abstract. The conducted research has shown that the students were not taught how to make the abstract correctly neither at school nor at the university and everybody learnt and got used to make notes by himself. It gives the authors possibility to suggest this topic to be the necessary part of the curriculum for the first-year students at the universities of the different types.

scholarly journals The problem of adaptation of first-year medical students to the educational process

2018 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 543-547
Author(s):  
A.O. Ocheretnyuk ◽  
D.A. Lysenko ◽  
O.V. Palamarchuk ◽  
T.R. Zakalata ◽  
V.V. Kernichnyi
Keyword(s):  
Educational Process ◽  
First Year ◽  
Adaptation Process ◽  
Self Assessment ◽  
First Year Students ◽  
National Medical ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Adaptation Processes ◽  
Medical University ◽  
First Year Medical Students

The problem of the adaptation of first-year students of medical universities is an important issue of medical education in Ukraine. Adaptation of first-year students is a factor that seriously affects the educational activities of educational institutions. However, the issue of adaptation to training in medical schools remains poorly understood and unresolved. A study of the adaptation processes of first-year students of the medical faculty to the educational process in Vinnitsa National Medical University, based on the results of an anonymous survey of 200 students. For the majority of the students surveyed (46%), the adaptation process turned out to be a little problematic. For 28% of students, adaptation was not required, which was associated with studying in their hometown or having friends with senior students. 9% of the students surveyed did not determine the problem of adaptation, which is associated with the perception of the problem. 17% of the students surveyed indicated that the adaptation process is a significant problem that requires considerable effort and a long time. Important factors that influenced this were social status and place of residence for learning. The basic criteria that influenced adaptation were self-assessment and communication. It is these criteria that turned out to be higher for people who did not need adaptation, and significantly lower for students with problem adaptation. The results obtained may indicate promising areas for further research on the study and testing of methods for improving adaptation to the educational process by first-year students at a medical school.

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