Construction and implementation of a model to predict the academic performance of university students using the Naïve Bayes algorithm
One of the most widely used applications of educational data mining is predicting academic performance. The aim of this paper is to present the construction, evaluation and implementation of a predictive model of the academic performance of university students by means of the data mining technique k...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2018 |
| País: | México |
| Institución: | UNIVERSIDAD DE GUADALAJARA |
| Repositorio: | Diálogos sobre educación. Temas actuales en investigación Educativa |
| Idioma: | español |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:dialogossobreeducacion.cucsh.udg.mx:article/509 |
| Acceso en línea: | http://dialogossobreeducacion.cucsh.udg.mx/index.php/DSE/article/view/509 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | prediction – academic performance – data mining – predictive model – Naïve Bayes algorithm predicción rendimiento académico minería de datos modelo predictivo algoritmo Naïve Bayes |
| Sumario: | One of the most widely used applications of educational data mining is predicting academic performance. The aim of this paper is to present the construction, evaluation and implementation of a predictive model of the academic performance of university students by means of the data mining technique known as the Naïve Bayes algorithm. We collected data from 122 students as training for the algorithm and applied the model to predict the academic performance of 71 students. The results show that, in addition to obtaining predictions of academic performance, the predictive model also identifies the factors that influence it the most. This type of study allows teachers to design prevention strategies and identify students who are vulnerable to failure. |
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