Socioeconomic Status

Yudelson et al. (2014) pdf

• Models discovering generalizable sub-populations of students across different schools to predict students' learning with Carnegie Learning’s Cognitive Tutor (CLCT)

• Models trained on schools with a high proportion of low-SES student performed worse than those trained with medium or low proportion
• Models trained on schools with low, medium proportion of SES students performed similarly well for schools with high proportions of low-SES students

Yu et al. (2020) pdf

• Models predicting undergraduate course grades and average GPA

• Students from low-income households were inaccurately predicted to perform worse for both short-term (final course grade) and long-term (GPA)
• Fairness of model improved if it included only 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 students with greater financial needs if they are studying in person
• The model showed better recall for students with greater financial needs, especially for those studying in person