A comparative analysis of techniques for predicting student performance

Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Educational Data Mining, EDM 2016

Volumn , Issue , 2016, Pages 306-311

  Bydžovská, Hana ^a  

^a MASARYK UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Classification; Collaborative filtering; Regression; Student performance prediction; Student similarity

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); COLLABORATIVE FILTERING; DATA MINING; FORECASTING;

COLLABORATIVE FILTERING TECHNIQUES; COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS; GRADE PREDICTIONS; MATHEMATICAL COURSE; REGRESSION; REGRESSION ALGORITHMS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; STUDENT PERFORMANCE;

STUDENTS;

EID: 85072284885     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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