Predicting drop-out from social behaviour of students

Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Educational Data Mining, EDM 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Bayer, Jaroslav ^a   Bydžovská, Hana ^a   Géryk, Jan ^a   Obšívač, Tomáš ^a   Popelínský, Lubomír ^a  

^a MASARYK UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DROPS; FORECASTING; STUDENTS;

COST-SENSITIVE LEARNING; DISCUSSION BOARDS; DROP-OUT; FAILURE PREDICTION; PREDICTION ACCURACY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOUR; SOCIAL GRAPHS;

DATA MINING;

EID: 85084013183     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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