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Educational Data Mining, Student Academic Performance Prediction, Prediction Methods, Algorithms and Tools: An Overview of Reviews

Version 1 : Received: 14 August 2021 / Approved: 16 August 2021 / Online: 16 August 2021 (14:04:57 CEST)

How to cite: Chaka, C. Educational Data Mining, Student Academic Performance Prediction, Prediction Methods, Algorithms and Tools: An Overview of Reviews. Preprints 2021, 2021080345. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202108.0345.v1 Chaka, C. Educational Data Mining, Student Academic Performance Prediction, Prediction Methods, Algorithms and Tools: An Overview of Reviews. Preprints 2021, 2021080345. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202108.0345.v1

Abstract

This overview study set out to compare and synthesise the findings of review studies conducted on predicting student academic performance (SAP) in higher education using educational data mining (EDM) methods, EDM algorithms and EDM tools from 2013 to June 2020. It conducted multiple searches for suitable and relevant peer-reviewed articles on two online search engines, on nine online databases, and on two online academic social networks. It, then, selected 26 eligible articles from 2,050 articles. Some of the findings of this overview study are worth mentioning. First, only 2 studies explicitly stated their precise sample sizes with maths and science as the two most mentioned subject areas. Second, 16 review studies had purposes related to either EDM techniques, EDM methods, EDM models, or EDM algorithms employed to predict SAP and student success in the higher education sector. Third, there are six commonly used typologies of input variables reported by 26 review studies, of which student demographics was the most commonly utilised variable for predicting SAP. Fourth and last, seven common EDM algorithms employed for predicting SAP were identified, of which Decision Tree emerged both as the most used algorithm and as the algorithm with the highest prediction accuracy rate for predicting SAP.

Keywords

student academic performance; educational data mining; methods; algorithms; tools; higher education; overview

Subject

Social Sciences, Education

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