International Journal of Modern Education and Computer Science (IJMECS)
IJMECS Vol. 14, No. 6, 8 Dec. 2022
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Machine Learning Algorithms for Quantifying the Role of Prerequisites in University Success
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Author(s)
Najat Messaoudi
1,*
Ghizlane Moukhliss
2
Jaafar K. Naciri
1
Bahloul Bensassi
2
Index Terms
Prerequisites, prediction, academic success, Machine Learning, Random Forest, J48, Multilayer Perceptron, Weka
Abstract
The use of machine learning algorithms for higher education performance assessment is an emerging area of research and several works have focused on student performance and related problems. The preliminary goal of this work is to determine and quantify the role of prerequisites in academic success by using machine learning algorithms with the Weka environment. The main objective is the development of a tool based on machine learning algorithms for the prediction of future results for a training program based solely on the previous academic profiles of the students. The interest is to link whether success in previous courses is associated with success in subsequent target courses. This will help to improve the planning of course sequences in a training program on the one hand and the overall academic students’ success on the other. The proposed methodology is applied for the analysis of the role of the prerequisites influencing courses success of a training course in Mathematical and Computer Sciences in a Moroccan university. For this purpose, we use several classification algorithms such as Random Forest, J48, and Multilayer Perceptron.
Preliminary results show that the correlation between the prerequisite reliability rates of the courses studied and the accuracy with which the learning algorithms predict the success outcomes of these courses is confirmed.
Also, these results show that the best accuracy and the best Receiver Operator Characteristic ROC area are obtained by using Random Forest algorithm and have reached 86% for the accuracy and 75.6% for the ROC area.
Cite This Paper
Najat Messaoudi, Ghizlane Moukhliss, Jaafar K. Naciri, Bahloul Bensassi, "Machine Learning Algorithms for Quantifying the Role of Prerequisites in University Success", International Journal of Modern Education and Computer Science(IJMECS), Vol.14, No.6, pp. 1-12, 2022. DOI:10.5815/ijmecs.2022.06.01
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