Africa Education Review call for papers

Educational Data Mining Approaches for Predicting Student Performance and Retention

Journal: Africa Education Review

Educational Data Mining (EDM) finds wider use in the prediction of student performance and improving retention in learning institutions. EDM can be used to detect students at risk by analyzing academic records, learning behaviors and patterns of engagement and provide teachers with timely interventions. Key methods encompass classification models to predict discrete events such as pass or fail, regression-based mode…