Students' performance prediction employing Decision Tree

An optimized educational community is a must in this modern era. The intersection of educational activities and the transformative potentials of Educational Data Mining (EDM) should be traversed, highlighting the reasoning behind the importance of EDM. Prior prediction of how a student stands acade...

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Main Authors: Abtahi Ahmed, Farzana Akter Nipa, Wasi Uddin Bhuyian, Khaled Md Mushfique, Kamrul Islam Shahin, Huu-Hoa Nguyen, Dewan Md. Farid
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Published: Can Tho University Publisher 2024-10-01
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Online Access:https://ctujs.ctu.edu.vn/index.php/ctujs/article/view/1137
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author Abtahi Ahmed
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Wasi Uddin Bhuyian
Khaled Md Mushfique
Kamrul Islam Shahin
Huu-Hoa Nguyen
Dewan Md. Farid
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description An optimized educational community is a must in this modern era. The intersection of educational activities and the transformative potentials of Educational Data Mining (EDM) should be traversed, highlighting the reasoning behind the importance of EDM. Prior prediction of how a student stands academically, can facilitate them towards a much safer approach with their life decisions. This study uses the vast power and analytical domain of EDM, combining it with machine learning models, upholding an accurate prediction of students' academic performance. The study consists of a dataset containing academic, demographic and social data of undergraduate students. The paper aims to analyze comprehensively the features that act behind academic performance. Lastly, it compares the impact of non-academic data separately on a student's performance and with academic data as well. Traditional machine learning algorithms perform quite well in general, with SVM giving a best accuracy of around 95% with academic data, while training and testing the model without academic data still gives a good performance of 93%. The hierarchical tree from Decision Tree visualizes the key features, which include past results, family members' qualification levels and their jobs, hobbies of the student, commute time, and more.
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spelling doaj-art-4a5b62474cc147e5be3bedb5f9c484242025-08-20T03:12:50ZengCan Tho University PublisherCTU Journal of Innovation and Sustainable Development2588-14182815-64122024-10-0116Special issue: ISDS10.22144/ctujoisd.2024.321Students' performance prediction employing Decision TreeAbtahi Ahmed0Farzana Akter Nipa1Wasi Uddin Bhuyian2Khaled Md Mushfique3Kamrul Islam Shahin4Huu-Hoa Nguyen5Dewan Md. Farid6United International UniversityUnited International UniversityUnited International UniversityUnited International UniversityUniversity of Southern DenmarkCan Tho UniversityUnited International University, Dhaka, Bangladesh An optimized educational community is a must in this modern era. The intersection of educational activities and the transformative potentials of Educational Data Mining (EDM) should be traversed, highlighting the reasoning behind the importance of EDM. Prior prediction of how a student stands academically, can facilitate them towards a much safer approach with their life decisions. This study uses the vast power and analytical domain of EDM, combining it with machine learning models, upholding an accurate prediction of students' academic performance. The study consists of a dataset containing academic, demographic and social data of undergraduate students. The paper aims to analyze comprehensively the features that act behind academic performance. Lastly, it compares the impact of non-academic data separately on a student's performance and with academic data as well. Traditional machine learning algorithms perform quite well in general, with SVM giving a best accuracy of around 95% with academic data, while training and testing the model without academic data still gives a good performance of 93%. The hierarchical tree from Decision Tree visualizes the key features, which include past results, family members' qualification levels and their jobs, hobbies of the student, commute time, and more. https://ctujs.ctu.edu.vn/index.php/ctujs/article/view/1137Classification, educational data mining, machine learning, students' performance prediction
spellingShingle Abtahi Ahmed
Farzana Akter Nipa
Wasi Uddin Bhuyian
Khaled Md Mushfique
Kamrul Islam Shahin
Huu-Hoa Nguyen
Dewan Md. Farid
Students' performance prediction employing Decision Tree
CTU Journal of Innovation and Sustainable Development
Classification, educational data mining, machine learning, students' performance prediction
title Students' performance prediction employing Decision Tree
title_full Students' performance prediction employing Decision Tree
title_fullStr Students' performance prediction employing Decision Tree
title_full_unstemmed Students' performance prediction employing Decision Tree
title_short Students' performance prediction employing Decision Tree
title_sort students performance prediction employing decision tree
topic Classification, educational data mining, machine learning, students' performance prediction
url https://ctujs.ctu.edu.vn/index.php/ctujs/article/view/1137
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