The Science and Information (SAI) Organization
  • Home
  • About Us
  • Journals
  • Conferences
  • Contact Us

Publication Links

  • IJACSA
  • Author Guidelines
  • Publication Policies
  • Metadata Harvesting (OAI2)
  • Digital Archiving Policy
  • Promote your Publication

IJACSA

  • About the Journal
  • Call for Papers
  • Author Guidelines
  • Fees/ APC
  • Submit your Paper
  • Current Issue
  • Archives
  • Indexing
  • Editors
  • Reviewers
  • Apply as a Reviewer

IJARAI

  • About the Journal
  • Archives
  • Indexing & Archiving

Special Issues

  • Home
  • Archives
  • Proposals
  • Guest Editors

Future of Information and Communication Conference (FICC)

  • Home
  • Call for Papers
  • Submit your Paper/Poster
  • Register
  • Venue
  • Contact

Computing Conference

  • Home
  • Call for Papers
  • Submit your Paper/Poster
  • Register
  • Venue
  • Contact

Intelligent Systems Conference (IntelliSys)

  • Home
  • Call for Papers
  • Submit your Paper/Poster
  • Register
  • Venue
  • Contact

Future Technologies Conference (FTC)

  • Home
  • Call for Papers
  • Submit your Paper/Poster
  • Register
  • Venue
  • Contact
  • Home
  • Call for Papers
  • Guidelines
  • Fees
  • Submit your Paper
  • Current Issue
  • Archives
  • Indexing
  • Editors
  • Reviewers
  • Subscribe

Article Details

Copyright Statement: This is an open access article licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, even commercially as long as the original work is properly cited.

Predicting Academic Performance using a Multiclassification Model: Case Study

Author 1: Alfredo Daza Vergaray
Author 2: Carlos Guerra
Author 3: Noemi Cervera
Author 4: Erwin Burgos

Download PDF

Digital Object Identifier (DOI) : 10.14569/IJACSA.2022.01309102

Article Published in International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications(IJACSA), Volume 13 Issue 9, 2022.

  • Abstract and Keywords
  • How to Cite this Article
  • {} BibTeX Source

Abstract: Now-a-days predicting the academic performance of students is increasingly possible, thanks to the constant use of computer systems that store a large amount of student information. Machine learning uses this information to achieve big goals, such as predicting whether or not a student will pass a course. The main purpose of the work was to make a multiclassifier model that exceeds the results obtained from the machine learning models used independently. For the development of our proposed predictive model, the methodology was used, which consists of several phases. For the first step, 557 records with 25 characteristics related to academic performance were selected, then the preprocessing was applied to said data set, eliminating the attributes with the lowest correlation and those records with inconsistencies, leaving 500 records and 9 attributes. For the transformation, it was necessary to convert categorical to numerical data of four attributes, being the following: SEX, ESTATUS_lab_padre, ESTATUS_lab_madre and CONDITION. Having the data set clean, we proceeded to balance the data, where 1,167 data were generated, using the 2/3 for training and the remaining 1/3 for validation, then the following techniques were applied: Extra Tree, Random Forest, Decision Tree, Ada Boost and XGBoost, each obtained an accuracy of 57.41%, 61.96%, 91.44%, 59.65% and 83.3% respectively. Then the proposed model was applied, combining the five algorithms mentioned above, which reached an accuracy of 92.86%, concluding that the proposed model provides better accuracy than when the models are used independently meaning that it was the one that obtained the best result.

Keywords: Learning machine; prediction; academic performance; hybrid model; classification techniques; multiclassification; python

Alfredo Daza Vergaray, Carlos Guerra, Noemi Cervera and Erwin Burgos, “Predicting Academic Performance using a Multiclassification Model: Case Study” International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications(IJACSA), 13(9), 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2022.01309102

@article{Vergaray2022,
title = {Predicting Academic Performance using a Multiclassification Model: Case Study},
journal = {International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications},
doi = {10.14569/IJACSA.2022.01309102},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2022.01309102},
year = {2022},
publisher = {The Science and Information Organization},
volume = {13},
number = {9},
author = {Alfredo Daza Vergaray and Carlos Guerra and Noemi Cervera and Erwin Burgos}
}


IJACSA

Upcoming Conferences

Future of Information and Communication Conference (FICC) 2023

2-3 March 2023

  • Virtual

Computing Conference 2023

22-23 June 2023

  • London, United Kingdom

IntelliSys 2023

7-8 September 2023

  • Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Future Technologies Conference (FTC) 2023

2-3 November 2023

  • San Francisco, United States
The Science and Information (SAI) Organization
BACK TO TOP

Computer Science Journal

  • About the Journal
  • Call for Papers
  • Submit Paper
  • Indexing

Our Conferences

  • Computing Conference
  • Intelligent Systems Conference
  • Future Technologies Conference
  • Communication Conference

Help & Support

  • Contact Us
  • About Us
  • Terms and Conditions
  • Privacy Policy

© The Science and Information (SAI) Organization Limited. Registered in England and Wales. Company Number 8933205. All rights reserved. thesai.org