Predicting and Comparing Students’ Online and Offline Academic Performance Using Machine Learning Algorithms

Due to COVID-19, the researching of educational data and the improvement of related systems have become increasingly important in recent years. Educational institutions seek more information about their students to find ways to utilize their talents and address their weaknesses. With the emergence o...

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Autores principales: Holicza, Barnabás, Kiss, Attila
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10135855/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37102803
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/bs13040289
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description Due to COVID-19, the researching of educational data and the improvement of related systems have become increasingly important in recent years. Educational institutions seek more information about their students to find ways to utilize their talents and address their weaknesses. With the emergence of e-learning, researchers and programmers aim to find ways to maintain students’ attention and improve their chances of achieving a higher grade point average (GPA) to gain admission to their desired colleges. In this paper, we predict, test, and provide reasons for declining student performance using various machine learning algorithms, including support vector machine with different kernels, decision tree, random forest, and k-nearest neighbors algorithms. Additionally, we compare two databases, one with data related to online learning and another with data on relevant offline learning properties, to compare predicted weaknesses with metrics such as F1 score and accuracy. However, before applying the algorithms, the databases need normalization to meet the prediction format. Ultimately, we find that success in school is related to habits such as sleep, study time, and screen time. More details regarding the results are provided in this paper.
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spelling pubmed-101358552023-04-28 Predicting and Comparing Students’ Online and Offline Academic Performance Using Machine Learning Algorithms Holicza, Barnabás Kiss, Attila Behav Sci (Basel) Article Due to COVID-19, the researching of educational data and the improvement of related systems have become increasingly important in recent years. Educational institutions seek more information about their students to find ways to utilize their talents and address their weaknesses. With the emergence of e-learning, researchers and programmers aim to find ways to maintain students’ attention and improve their chances of achieving a higher grade point average (GPA) to gain admission to their desired colleges. In this paper, we predict, test, and provide reasons for declining student performance using various machine learning algorithms, including support vector machine with different kernels, decision tree, random forest, and k-nearest neighbors algorithms. Additionally, we compare two databases, one with data related to online learning and another with data on relevant offline learning properties, to compare predicted weaknesses with metrics such as F1 score and accuracy. However, before applying the algorithms, the databases need normalization to meet the prediction format. Ultimately, we find that success in school is related to habits such as sleep, study time, and screen time. More details regarding the results are provided in this paper. MDPI 2023-03-28 /pmc/articles/PMC10135855/ /pubmed/37102803 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/bs13040289 Text en © 2023 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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