A Model to Predict Low Academic Performance at a Specific Enrollment Using Data Mining

Revista Iberoamericana de Tecnologias del Aprendizaje

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 119-125

  Lopez Guarin, Camilo Ernesto ^a   Guzman, Elizabeth Leon ^a   Gonzalez, Fabio A ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE COLOMBIA   (Colombia)

Author keywords

Attrition; dropout; Educational Data Mining; prediction

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); DECISION TREES; EDUCATION; FORECASTING; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE; ATTRITION; CLASSIFICATION TASKS; CLASSIFICATION TECHNIQUE; DATA MINING MODELS; DECISION TREE CLASSIFIERS; DROPOUT; EDUCATIONAL DATA MINING;

DATA MINING;

EID: 84946555071     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19328540     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/RITA.2015.2452632     Document Type: Article

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