Forecasting Students Dropout: A UTAD University Study

In Portugal, the dropout rate of university courses is around 29%. Understanding the reasons behind such a high desertion rate can drastically improve the success of students and universities. This work applies existing data mining techniques to predict the academic dropout mainly using the academic...

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Published in:Future Internet
Main Authors: Diogo E. Moreira da Silva, Eduardo J. Solteiro Pires, Arsénio Reis, Paulo B. de Moura Oliveira, João Barroso
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2022-02-01
Subjects:
students dropout
Random Forest
XGBoost
CatBoost
artificial neural network
permutation feature importance
Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/1999-5903/14/3/76

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