The real world significance of performance prediction

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

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Pardos, Zachary A ^a   Wang, Qing Yang ^a   Trivedi, Shubhendu ^a  

^a Worcester Polytechnic Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

Cross validation; Evaluation; Interpretation of error; Simulation

Indexed keywords

DATA MINING; ERRORS; FORECASTING;

CROSS VALIDATION; EDUCATIONAL DATA MINING; EVALUATION; PERFORMANCE PREDICTION; SIMULATION; STANDARD VALIDATIONS; STANDARDIZED TESTS; STUDENT PERFORMANCE;

STUDENTS;

EID: 85084013748     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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