Marbouti, F., & Diefes-Dux, H. A., & Strobel, J. (2015, June), Building Course-Specific Regression-based Models to Identify At-risk Students  Paper presented at 2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Seattle, Washington. 10.18260/p.23643

\bibitem{asee_peer_23643}
  Marbouti, F., \& Diefes-Dux, H. A., \& Strobel, J. (2015, June), \emph{Building Course-Specific Regression-based Models to Identify At-risk Students}
  Paper presented at 2015 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, Seattle, Washington.
  10.18260/p.23643

Farshid Marbouti, Heidi A. Diefes-Dux, and Johannes Strobel.  "Building Course-Specific Regression-based Models to Identify At-risk Students".  2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Seattle, Washington, 2015, June.  ASEE Conferences, 2015.  https://peer.asee.org/23643 Internet.  13 Dec, 2024

\bibitem{asee_peer_23643}
  Farshid Marbouti, Heidi A. Diefes-Dux, and Johannes Strobel.
  "Building Course-Specific Regression-based Models to Identify At-risk Students".
  \emph{2015 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, Seattle, Washington, 2015, June}.
  ASEE Conferences, 2015.
  https://peer.asee.org/23643 Internet.  13 Dec, 2024

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AB  -                        Building course-specific prediction models                              to identify at-risk studentsThe first step in helping students who may fail a course is to identify them as early in thesemester as possible. Prediction of success can help the course instructor to identify at riskstudents and help them to be successful in the course. In an attempt to predict students’ gradesearly in the semester, some instructors use course syllabi grading criteria and apply it to theavailable performance information in order to calculate an early grade for students. This methodmay only be useful closer to the end of semester when the majority of performance informationis available and it may be extremely inaccurate at the beginning of the semester. Using suchinaccurate methods at the beginning of semester can result in wrong predictions and lead tomistrust of students in the predictions.With the use of predictive modeling techniques, it is possible to better predict students’ successin a course. A predictive model can be used as an early warning system, which predicts students’success in courses and informs both the instructor and the students of their performance. Use ofan early warning system in a course, along with guidelines on how to succeed in the course, canincrease students’ success in the course.One common problem with early warning systems, which are currently being used, is that theytypically employ a general model that cannot address the complexity of all courses. Over the pastdecade, more instructors are trying to add more complex learning objectives and using activelearning strategies instead of the traditional extensive lecturing. The new pedagogies are usuallyimplemented along with new assessment methods that do not fit the traditional homework andexam framework. Thus, the assessed components can vary largely from one course to another.Therefore, using one model for different courses can significantly reduce accuracy of the model.In this study, we built three models to identify at-risk students in a non-traditional large first-yearengineering course with ~1700 students at three important times of the semester according toacademic calendar. Then the models were optimized for identifying at-risk students. The modelswere able to identify 79% of at-risk students at week 2 (last day to drop a course without itappearing on record), 90% at week 4 (last day to withdraw from a course with a grade of W), and98% at week 9 (last day to withdraw a course with a grade of W of WF). This high accuracyillustrates the value of creating course specific prediction models instead of generic ones.
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