Modern artificial intelligence model development for undergraduate student performance prediction: an investigation on engineering mathematics courses
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Article Title | Modern artificial intelligence model development for undergraduate student performance prediction: an investigation on engineering mathematics courses |
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ERA Journal ID | 210567 |
Article Category | Article |
Authors | Deo, Ravinesh C. (Author), Yaseen, Zaher Mundher (Author), Al-Ansari, Nadhir (Author), Nguyen-Huy, Thong (Author), Langlands, Trevor (Author) and Galligan, Linda (Author) |
Journal Title | IEEE Access |
Journal Citation | 8, pp. 136697-136724 |
Article Number | 9145548 |
Number of Pages | 28 |
Year | 2020 |
Publisher | IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) |
Place of Publication | United States |
ISSN | 2169-3536 |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2020.3010938 |
Web Address (URL) | https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9145548 |
Abstract | A computationally efficient artificial intelligence (AI) model called Extreme Learning Machines (ELM) is adopted to analyze patterns embedded in continuous assessment to model the weighted score (WS) and the examination (EX) score in engineering mathematics courses at an Australian regional university. The student performance data taken over a six-year period in multiple courses ranging from the mid- to the advanced level and a diverse course offering mode (i.e., on-campus, ONC, and online, ONL) are modelled by ELM and further benchmarked against competing models: random forest (RF) and Volterra. With the assessments and examination marks as key predictors of WS (leading to a grade in the mid-level course), ELM (with respect to RF and Volterra) outperformed its counterpart models both for the ONC and the ONL offer. This generated relative prediction error in the testing phase, of only 0.74%, compared to about 3.12% and 1.06%, respectively, while for the ONL offer, the prediction errors were only 0.51% compared to about 3.05% and 0.70%. In modelling the student performance in advanced engineering mathematics course, ELM registered slightly larger errors: 0.77% (vs. 22.23% and 1.87%) for ONC and 0.54% (vs. 4.08% and 1.31%) for the ONL offer. This study advocates a pioneer implementation of a robust AI methodology to uncover relationships among student learning variables, developing teaching and learning intervention and course health checks to address issues related to graduate outcomes, and student learning attributes in the higher education sector |
Keywords | education decision-making; Extreme Learning Machine; student performance modelling; AI in higher education; engineering mathematics |
ANZSRC Field of Research 2020 | 390303. Higher education |
390109. Mathematics and numeracy curriculum and pedagogy | |
Byline Affiliations | School of Sciences |
Ton Duc Thang University, Vietnam | |
Lulea University of Technology, Sweden | |
Centre for Applied Climate Sciences | |
Institution of Origin | University of Southern Queensland |
https://research.usq.edu.au/item/q5w93/modern-artificial-intelligence-model-development-for-undergraduate-student-performance-prediction-an-investigation-on-engineering-mathematics-courses
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