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*Models predicting undergraduate course grades and average GPA
*Models predicting undergraduate course grades and average GPA


* First-generation college students were inaccurately predicted to lower than class media final course grade and lower 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
* Fairness of models improved with the inclusion of clickstream and survey data


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Yu et al. (2021) [https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3430895.3460139 pdf]
Yu et al. (2021) [https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3430895.3460139 pdf]


* Models predicting college dropout
* Models predicting college dropout for students in residential and fully online program
* Models for first-generation residential students showed worse accuracy and true negative rate (i.e., predicting power of sophomore year persistence on college persistence)
* Whether the socio-demographic information was included or not, the model showed worse accuracy and true negative rates for first-generation students who are studying in person
* Models for first-generation residential students showed significantly better recall (i.e., proportion of correctly identified dropouts) than online peers, whether the attribute were made aware or not
* The model showed better recall for first-generation students, especially for those studying in person
 
 
Kung & Yu (2020)
[https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3386527.3406755 pdf]
* Predicting course grades and later GPA at public U.S. university
* Worse performance on independence for first-generation students in course grade prediction on 5 of 5 classic machine algorithms; worse performance on separation for 3 of 5 algorithms; comparable performance on sufficiency for 5 of 5 algorithms
* Worse performance on independence for first-generation students in later GPA prediction for three of five algorithms; two algorithms had worse separation and one algorithm had worse sufficiency
 
 
Rzepka et al. (2022) [https://www.insticc.org/node/TechnicalProgram/CSEDU/2022/presentationDetails/109621 pdf]
* Models predicting whether student will quit spelling learning activity without completing
* Multiple algorithms have slightly better false positive rates and AUC ROC for students with at least one parent who graduated high school, but equivalent performance on multiple other metrics.

Latest revision as of 22:02, 20 June 2022

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 for students in residential and fully online program
  • Whether the socio-demographic information was included or not, the model showed worse accuracy and true negative rates for first-generation students who are studying in person
  • The model showed better recall for first-generation students, especially for those studying in person


Kung & Yu (2020) pdf

  • Predicting course grades and later GPA at public U.S. university
  • Worse performance on independence for first-generation students in course grade prediction on 5 of 5 classic machine algorithms; worse performance on separation for 3 of 5 algorithms; comparable performance on sufficiency for 5 of 5 algorithms
  • Worse performance on independence for first-generation students in later GPA prediction for three of five algorithms; two algorithms had worse separation and one algorithm had worse sufficiency


Rzepka et al. (2022) pdf

  • Models predicting whether student will quit spelling learning activity without completing
  • Multiple algorithms have slightly better false positive rates and AUC ROC for students with at least one parent who graduated high school, but equivalent performance on multiple other metrics.