Parental Educational Background

Kai et al. (2017) pdf

• Models predicting student retention in an online college program
• J-48 decision trees achieved much higher Kappa and AUC for students whose parents did not attend college than those whose parents did
• J-Rip decision rules achieved much higher Kappa and AUC for students whose parents did not attended college than those whose parents did

Yu et al. (2020) pdf

• Models predicting undergraduate course grades and average GPA

• First-generation college students were inaccurately predicted to get lower course grade and average GPA
• Fairness of models improved with the inclusion of clickstream and survey data

Yu et al. (2021) pdf

• Models predicting college dropout
• Models for first-generation residential students showed worse accuracy and true negative rate (i.e., predicting power of sophomore year persistence on college persistence)
• Models for first-generation residential students showed significantly better recall (i.e., proportion of correctly identified dropouts) than online peers, whether the attribute were included or not