Use of machine learning techniques for educational proposes: A decision support system for forecasting students' grades

Artificial Intelligence Review

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 331-344

  Kotsiantis, S B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Decision support tools; Educational data mining; Machine learning

Indexed keywords

DECISION SUPPORT TOOLS; DEMOGRAPHIC CHARACTERISTICS; EDUCATIONAL DATA MINING; EDUCATIONAL SETTINGS; LOG FILE; MACHINE LEARNING TECHNIQUES; PROTOTYPE VERSIONS; REGRESSION METHOD; SOFTWARE SUPPORT; STUDENT'S PERFORMANCE; TRAINING SETS; VIRTUAL COURSE;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; DATA MINING; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; E-LEARNING; FORECASTING; LEARNING ALGORITHMS; POPULATION STATISTICS; SOFTWARE PROTOTYPING; STUDENTS; TEACHING;

LEARNING SYSTEMS;

EID: 84871069884     PISSN: 02692821     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10462-011-9234-x     Document Type: Article

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