Predicting student grades in learning management systems with multiple instance genetic programming

EDM'09 - Educational Data Mining 2009: 2nd International Conference on Educational Data Mining

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 307-314

  Zafra, Amelia ^a   Ventura, Sebastián ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CÓRDOBA   (Spain)

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Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL EXPERIMENT; GRAMMAR GUIDED GENETIC PROGRAMMING; LEARNING MANAGEMENT SYSTEM; MULTIPLE INSTANCES; MULTIPLE-INSTANCE LEARNING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STUDENT GRADES; STUDENT'S PERFORMANCE;

DATA MINING; GENETIC PROGRAMMING;

FORECASTING;

EID: 77958152418     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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