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July 1, 2019

Using Machine Learning to Predict Student Outcomes

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Mattew Lynch, Tech Edvocate

Many factors play a role in early withdrawal from university, mostly to do with financial and personal reasons. Universities and colleges also lose students when they decide to study at other schools, or take online courses at other schools or decide to take their sophomore year off. Technology in the form of machine learning is being used by universities to improve their student support and retention rates. The value of machine learning for the improvement of retention rates lies in its predictive power. Machine learning algorithms are able to analyze vast data sets and identify students who are at risk of abandoning their studies.

 

https://www.thetechedvocate.org/using-machine-learning-to-predict-student-outcomes/

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