Early dropout prediction using data mining: A case study with high school students

Expert Systems

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 107-124

  Márquez Vera, Carlos ^a   Cano, Alberto ^b   Romero, Cristobal ^c   Noaman, Amin Yousef Mohammad ^d   Mousa Fardoun, Habib ^d   Ventura, Sebastian ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE ZACATECAS   (Mexico)

^b VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CÓRDOBA   (Spain)

^d KING ABDULAZIZ UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

classification; educational data mining; grammar based genetic programming; predicting dropout

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); EDUCATION; EDUCATION COMPUTING; FORECASTING; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; GENETIC PROGRAMMING; STUDENTS; TEACHING;

CLASSIFICATION ALGORITHM; CLASSIFICATION APPROACH; EARLY WARNING SYSTEM; EDUCATIONAL DATA MINING; GRAMMAR-BASED GENETIC PROGRAMMING; HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS; HIGH SCHOOLS STUDENTS; PREDICTING DROPOUT;

DATA MINING;

EID: 84958177306     PISSN: 02664720     EISSN: 14680394     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/exsy.12135     Document Type: Article

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