Évaluation du risque d'échec des étudiants de première année universitaire selon leur profil

Jean-Philippe Vandamme, Nadine Meskens and Juan-Francisco Superby

Reflets et perspectives de la vie économique, 2006, vol. XLV, issue 2, 39-46

Abstract: Academic failure among first-year university students has long fuelled a large number of debates. Many educational psychologists have tried to understand and then explain it. Many statisticians have tried to foresee it. Our research aims to be able to classify, as early in the academic year as possible, students into three groups: the ?low?risk? students, who have a high probability of succeeding, the ?medium?risk? students, who may succeed thanks to the measures taken by the university, and the ?high?risk? students, who have a high probability of failing (or dropping out). This article describes our methodology and provides the most significant variables correlated to academic success among all the questions asked to 533 first-year university students during the month of November of academic year 2003-04. Finally, it presents the results of the application of discriminant analysis, neural networks and decision trees aimed at predicting those students? academic success.

Keywords: decision tree; neural networks; discriminant analysis; education; prediction (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2006
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