Agathe Merceron

Work place: Beuth University of Applied Sciences /Department of Computer Science and Media, Berlin, 13353, Germany

E-mail: merceron@beuth-hochschule.de

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Research Interests: Computer Science & Information Technology, Computer systems and computational processes, Computational Learning Theory, Information Systems

Biography

Agathe Merceron received her master’s degree in Applied Mathematics in 1979 and her Ph. D. in Computer Science in 1981 from the University Paris VII, France, and her habilitation in Computer Science in 1986 from the University Paris XI, France. After occupying different positions in several countries (France, Germany and Australia) she has been a professor of Computer Science at Beuth University of Applied Sciences, Berlin, Germany since 2006. She is responsible for the online-degrees Bachelor and Master Computer Science and Media. Her current research interests include Information Systems and Knowledge Management, application to E-learning, Technology Enhanced Learning, Educational Data Mining and Learning Analytics. She is a member of the board of the international educational data mining society.

Author Articles
Predicting Student Academic Performance at Degree Level: A Case Study

By Raheela Asif Agathe Merceron Mahmood K. Pathan

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5815/ijisa.2015.01.05, Pub. Date: 8 Dec. 2014

Universities gather large volumes of data with reference to their students in electronic form. The advances in the data mining field make it possible to mine these educational data and find information that allow for innovative ways of supporting both teachers and students. This paper presents a case study on predicting performance of students at the end of a university degree at an early stage of the degree program, in order to help universities not only to focus more on bright students but also to initially identify students with low academic achievement and find ways to support them. The data of four academic cohorts comprising 347 undergraduate students have been mined with different classifiers. The results show that it is possible to predict the graduation performance in 4th year at university using only pre-university marks and marks of 1st and 2nd year courses, no socio-economic or demographic features, with a reasonable accuracy. Furthermore courses that are indicators of particularly good or poor performance have been identified.

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