Predicting university performance

Improving University Operations with Data Mining: Predicting Student Performance

The purpose of this paper is to develop models that would enable predicting student success. These models could improve allocation of students among colleges and optimize the newly introduced model of government subsidies for higher education. For the purpose of collecting data, an anonymous survey was carried out in the last year of undergraduate degree student population using random sampling...

Analyzing University Data for Determining Student Profiles and Predicting Performance

The validity of Iran’s national university entrance examination (Konkoor) for predicting medical students’ academic performance

BACKGROUND In Iran, admission to medical school is based solely on the results of the highly competitive, nationwide Konkoor examination. This paper examines the predictive validity of Konkoor scores, alone and in combination with high school grade point averages (hsGPAs), for the academic performance of public medical school students in Iran. METHODS This study followed the cohort of 2003 ma...

The role of goal importance in predicting university students’ high academic performance

We examined goal importance, focusing on high, but not exclusive priority goals, in the theory of planned behaviour (TPB) to predict students’ academic performance. At the beginning of semester, students in a psychology subject (N = 197) completed TPB and goal importance items for achieving a high grade. Regression analyses revealed partial support for the TPB. Perceived behavioural control, bu...

Predicting SPARQL Query Performance

We address the problem of predicting SPARQL query performance. We use machine learning techniques to learn SPARQL query performance from previously executed queries. We show how to model SPARQL queries as feature vectors, and use k -nearest neighbors regression and Support Vector Machine with the nu-SVR kernel to accurately (R value of 0.98526) predict SPARQL query execution time. 1 Query Perfo...