Course Grade and GPA Prediction

Lee and Kizilcec (2020) [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)

Yu et al. (2020) [pdf]

• Model predicting undergraduate course grades and average GPA
• students of several racial backgrounds were inaccurately predicted to perform worse than other students

Riazy et al. (2020) [pdf]

• Models predicting course outcome of students in a virtual learning environment (VLE)
• Students with self-declared disability were predicted to pass the course with 16-23 percentage points in favor from the training and test set