Difference between revisions of "Black/African-American Learners in North America"

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* Models predicting six-year college graduation
* Models predicting six-year college graduation
* Performance for African-American students comparable to performance for students in other races.
* Performance for African-American students comparable to performance for students in other races.
Lee and Kizilcec (2020) [[https://arxiv.org/pdf/2007.00088.pdf pdf]]
* Model predicting college course grade of median or above
* Out-of-the-box random forest model violates demographic parity and equality of opportunity for URM(underrepresented minority: American Indian, Black, Hawaiian or Pacific Islander, Hispanic, and Multicultural) than for non-URM students (White and Asian)

Revision as of 00:15, 24 January 2022

Kai et al. (2017) pdf

  • Models predicting student retention in an online college program
  • J48 decision trees achieved much lower Kappa and AUC for Black students than White students
  • JRip decision rules achieved almost identical Kappa and AUC for Black students and White students

Hu and Rangwala (2020) pdf

  • Models predicting if student at-risk of failing a course
  • Several algorithms perform worse for African-American students

Anderson et al. (2019) pdf

  • Models predicting six-year college graduation
  • Performance for African-American students comparable to performance for students in other races.
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