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  • Article
  • Open Access
77 Citations
22,480 Views
15 Pages

16 November 2020

The purpose of the study on which this paper is based was to conduct a performance evaluation of student learning for an introductory course in project management in a higher educational institution in Norway. This was done by utilizing performance m...

(This article belongs to the Section Higher Education)
  • Article
  • Open Access
74 Citations
12,278 Views
14 Pages

Predicting Student Performance Using Clickstream Data and Machine Learning

  • Yutong Liu,
  • Si Fan,
  • Shuxiang Xu,
  • Atul Sajjanhar and ,
  • Soonja Yeom and
  • Yuchen Wei
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

23 December 2022

Student performance predictive analysis has played a vital role in education in recent years. It allows for the understanding students’ learning behaviours, the identification of at-risk students, and the development of insights into teaching a...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Embracing Online Pedagogy: The New Normal for Higher Education)
  • Review
  • Open Access
438 Citations
67,752 Views
28 Pages

29 December 2020

The prediction of student academic performance has drawn considerable attention in education. However, although the learning outcomes are believed to improve learning and teaching, prognosticating the attainment of student outcomes remains underexplo...

(This article belongs to the Section Computing and Artificial Intelligence)
  • Article
  • Open Access
122 Citations
11,608 Views
12 Pages

Transfer Learning from Deep Neural Networks for Predicting Student Performance

  • Maria Tsiakmaki,
  • Georgios Kostopoulos,
  • Sotiris Kotsiantis and
  • Omiros Ragos

21 March 2020

Transferring knowledge from one domain to another has gained a lot of attention among scientists in recent years. Transfer learning is a machine learning approach aiming to exploit the knowledge retrieved from one problem for improving the predictive...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Applied Machine Learning)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,049 Views
18 Pages

8 January 2026

Intelligent recommender systems are essential for identifying at-risk students and personalizing learning through tailored resources. Accurate prediction of student performance enables these systems to deliver timely interventions and data-driven sup...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Human–Computer Interactions and Computer-Assisted Education)
  • Article
  • Open Access
659 Views
13 Pages

The rapid growth of online learning platforms has intensified the need for privacy-aware methods that can analyze learner behavior without centralizing sensitive activity logs. This study presents a Federated Learning-Based Graph Representation Learn...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Deep Learning and Data Analytics Applications in Social Networks)
  • Article
  • Open Access
421 Citations
58,050 Views
28 Pages

16 September 2021

Educational Data Mining plays a critical role in advancing the learning environment by contributing state-of-the-art methods, techniques, and applications. The recent development provides valuable tools for understanding the student learning environm...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
6,624 Views
16 Pages

Comprehensive Evaluations of Student Performance Estimation via Machine Learning

  • Ahmad Saeed Mohammad,
  • Musab T. S. Al-Kaltakchi,
  • Jabir Alshehabi Al-Ani and
  • Jonathon A. Chambers

18 July 2023

Success in student learning is the primary aim of the educational system. Artificial intelligence utilizes data and machine learning to achieve excellence in student learning. In this paper, we exploit several machine learning techniques to estimate...

(This article belongs to the Section E1: Mathematics and Computer Science)
  • Article
  • Open Access
237 Views
20 Pages

3 October 2026

Federated learning can support privacy-conscious student performance prediction by enabling collaborative model training across educational institutions without centralizing sensitive student records. However, existing educational federated learning...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Artificial Intelligence for Learning and Education)
  • Article
  • Open Access
79 Citations
11,673 Views
16 Pages

16 March 2024

As an emerging teaching method, online learning is becoming increasingly popular among learners. However, one of the major drawbacks of this learning style is the lack of effective communication and feedback, which can lead to a higher risk of studen...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Artificial Intelligence Technologies for Education: Advancements, Challenges, and Impacts)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,630 Views
14 Pages

Machine Learning in Education: Predicting Student Performance and Guiding Institutional Decisions

  • Claudia-Anamaria Buzducea (Drăgoi),
  • Marius-Valentin Drăgoi,
  • Cozmin Cristoiu,
  • Roxana-Adriana Puiu and ,
  • Mihail Puiu,
  • Gabriel Petrea and
  • Bogdan-Cătălin Navligu
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

6 January 2026

Using Machine Learning (ML) in educational management transforms higher education strategy. This study examines students’ views on machine learning (ML) technologies and how they might be used to plan, monitor, and predict student performance....

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
1,527 Views
22 Pages

16 November 2025

Accurate and interpretable prediction of student academic performance is a cornerstone of data-driven educational support systems, enabling timely interventions, personalized learning pathways, and equitable resource allocation. While ensemble machin...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Artificial Intelligence Technologies for Education: Advancements, Challenges, and Impacts, 2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
35 Citations
9,082 Views
25 Pages

29 July 2025

This study addresses fairness in machine learning for student academic performance prediction using the UCI Student Performance dataset. We comparatively evaluate logistic regression, Random Forest, and XGBoost, integrating the Synthetic Minority Ove...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Challenges and Trends in Technology-Enhanced Learning)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
5,805 Views
12 Pages

27 December 2021

The 21st century has seen dramatic changes to education delivery which have widened the scope of transnational education and remote learning via various virtual learning environments (VLEs). Efficient remote teaching activities require students to be...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue The 10th Anniversary of Pharmacy—Advances in Pharmacy Education and Practice)
  • Article
  • Open Access
40 Citations
9,155 Views
17 Pages

A Practical Model for the Evaluation of High School Student Performance Based on Machine Learning

  • Mostafa Zafari,
  • Abolghasem Sadeghi-Niaraki,
  • Soo-Mi Choi and
  • Ali Esmaeily

6 December 2021

The objective of this research is to develop an machine learning (ML) -based system that evaluates the performance of high school students during the semester and identify the most significant factors affecting student performance. It also specifies...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Artificial Intelligence and Complex System)
  • Review
  • Open Access
79 Citations
15,012 Views
23 Pages

18 November 2021

Improving the quality, developing and implementing systems that can provide advantages to students, and predicting students’ success during the term, at the end of the term, or in the future are some of the primary aims of education. Due to its...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Artificial Intelligence Learning Technologies)
  • Article
  • Open Access
174 Citations
17,836 Views
20 Pages

Predicting Student Performance in Higher Educational Institutions Using Video Learning Analytics and Data Mining Techniques

  • Raza Hasan,
  • Sellappan Palaniappan,
  • Salman Mahmood,
  • Ali Abbas and ,
  • Kamal Uddin Sarker and
  • Mian Usman Sattar
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

4 June 2020

Technology and innovation empower higher educational institutions (HEI) to use different types of learning systems—video learning is one such system. Analyzing the footprints left behind from these online interactions is useful for understandin...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Techniques in the Analysis and Prediction of Students' Behaviour in Technology-Enhanced Learning Contexts)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,338 Views
23 Pages

Enhancing Student Engagement and Performance Through Personalized Study Plans in Online Learning: A Proof-of-Concept Pilot Study

  • Indika Karunaratne,
  • Ranasignhe Arachchilage Ashinka Shani,
  • Vithanage Chethani Sandamali Vithanage,
  • Pavithra Senanayake and
  • Ajantha Sanjeewa Atukorale

9 December 2025

This study examines how interaction data from Learning Management Systems (LMSs) can be leveraged to predict student performance and enhance academic outcomes through personalized study plans tailored to individual learning styles. The research follo...

(This article belongs to the Section Human–Computer Interactions)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,312 Views
19 Pages

10 June 2025

In 2019, the TIMSS study offered a closer look at how Moroccan eighth-grade students were doing in mathematics. The data came from a sample of 8390 students; 37% performed well, while the remaining 63% struggled. The goal was to better understand whi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Artificial Intelligence and Games Science in Education)
  • Review
  • Open Access
23 Citations
9,619 Views
25 Pages

Investigating the Relationship Between Leadership for Learning and Student Achievement Through the Mediation of Teacher Performance: A Meta-Analytic Structural Equation Modeling (MASEM) Approach

  • Stamatios Papadakis,
  • Sedat Kanadlı,
  • Abdurrahman Kardas,
  • Tijen Tülübaş and ,
  • Turgut Karakose and
  • Hakan Polat
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

30 November 2024

The Leadership for Learning (LfL) framework is often used to investigate the effect of leadership on student achievement (SA). This framework encompasses instructional leadership (IL), transformational leadership (TL), and distributed leadership (DL)...

(This article belongs to the Section Teacher Education)
  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
1,826 Views
9 Pages

Predicting the Learning Performance of Minority Students in a Vietnamese High School Using Artificial Intelligence Algorithms

  • Hai-Duy Le,
  • Thao-Trang Huynh-Cam,
  • Long-Sheng Chen,
  • Vo Phan Thu Ngan and
  • Tzu-Chuen Lu

This study aims to predict and discover important factors for the learning performance of students belonging to two ethnic groups—Khmer and Chinese (Hoa) students—in Soc Trang with the use of random forest (RF) and Gaussian Naïve Bay...

(This article belongs to the Proceedings of 2024 4th International Conference on Social Sciences and Intelligence Management (SSIM 2024))
  • Article
  • Open Access
67 Citations
7,448 Views
22 Pages

27 August 2021

Electronic learning management systems provide live environments for students and faculty members to connect with their institutional online portals and perform educational activities virtually. Although modern technologies proactively support these...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Decision Making and Its Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
5,081 Views
26 Pages

24 April 2024

The identification of heterogeneous and homogeneous groups of students using clustering analysis in learning analytics is still rare. The paper describes a study in which the students’ performance data stored in the micro-learning platform Pris...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Artificial Intelligence Technologies for Education: Advancements, Challenges, and Impacts)
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
9,742 Views
14 Pages

9 September 2022

This study examines how the gender of students and their level of education (undergraduate or postgraduate students) influence affective learning outcomes in a mixed environment. The research model is based on four key indicators: satisfaction, perce...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Digitalization of Education: Technology Enhanced Learning)
  • Feature Paper
  • Review
  • Open Access
350 Citations
40,236 Views
16 Pages

Analyzing and Predicting Students’ Performance by Means of Machine Learning: A Review

  • Juan L. Rastrollo-Guerrero,
  • Juan A. Gómez-Pulido and
  • Arturo Durán-Domínguez

4 February 2020

Predicting students’ performance is one of the most important topics for learning contexts such as schools and universities, since it helps to design effective mechanisms that improve academic results and avoid dropout, among other things. Thes...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Techniques in the Analysis and Prediction of Students' Behaviour in Technology-Enhanced Learning Contexts)
  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
4,696 Views
18 Pages

The learning performance of international students and students with disabilities has increasingly attracted many theoretical and practical researchers. However, previous studies used questionnaires, surveys, and/or interviews to investigate factors...

  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
7,272 Views
16 Pages

4 July 2023

Affective and cognitive factors play significant roles in influencing students’ learning performance. However, limited studies exist that examine the latent interactions between these factors and students’ learning performance. This study...

(This article belongs to the Section Educational Psychology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
4,501 Views
24 Pages

Universities and schools rely heavily on the ability to forecast student performance, as it enables them to develop efficient strategies for enhancing academic results and averting student attrition. The automation of processes and the management of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
40 Citations
24,357 Views
13 Pages

Using Artificial Intelligence to Predict Students’ Academic Performance in Blended Learning

  • Nawaf N. Hamadneh,
  • Samer Atawneh,
  • Waqar A. Khan,
  • Khaled A. Almejalli and
  • Adeeb Alhomoud

16 September 2022

University electronic learning (e-learning) has witnessed phenomenal growth, especially in 2020, due to the COVID-19 pandemic. This type of education is significant because it ensures that all students receive the required learning. The statistical e...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainable Methods for the Study of Students' Abilities: Observational and Survey Techniques)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,076 Views
22 Pages

11 November 2021

Understanding students’ learning processes and education-related phenomena by extracting knowledge from educational data sets represents a continuous interest in the educational data mining domain. Due to an accelerated expansion of online learning a...

(This article belongs to the Section E2: Control Theory and Mechanics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,091 Views
11 Pages

21 February 2023

In this paper, we investigated the impact of an early learning assessment on students’ motivation for improving their performance throughout the semester. An observation analysis was conducted on an entry level mechanical engineering course in...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
9,233 Views
18 Pages

For the majority of people, bursaries are a significant concern during their academic careers. This research focuses on how satisfied subsidized students are with the program and how it affects their ability to learn after receiving disadvantaged stu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
563 Views
18 Pages

9 June 2026

Digital transformation is reshaping technical and vocational education and training (TVET), yet the behavioral processes through which students’ digital learning competence is associated with learning performance remain underexplored. Drawing o...

  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
95 Citations
27,505 Views
25 Pages

10 May 2023

The study of learning analytics provides statistical analysis and extract insights from data, particularly in education. Various studies regarding student engagement in online learning have been conducted at tertiary institutions to verify its effect...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Innovations and Trends on Higher Education and Sustainable Development in the Field of Health Sciences)
  • Review
  • Open Access
45 Citations
10,443 Views
25 Pages

Deep Learning and Reinforcement Learning for Assessing and Enhancing Academic Performance in University Students: A Scoping Review

  • Fabrizio Stasolla,
  • Antonio Zullo,
  • Roberto Maniglio,
  • Anna Passaro and ,
  • Mariacarla Di Gioia,
  • Enza Curcio and
  • Elvira Martini
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

19 February 2025

University students often face challenges in managing academic demands and difficulties like time management, task prioritization, and effective study strategies. This scoping review investigates the application of Deep Learning (DL) and Reinforcemen...

(This article belongs to the Section AI Systems: Theory and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
7,689 Views
28 Pages

The Contribution of Learner Characteristics and Perceived Learning to Students’ Satisfaction and Academic Performance during COVID-19

  • Sameera Butt,
  • Asif Mahmood,
  • Saima Saleem,
  • Shah Ali Murtaza and ,
  • Sana Hassan and
  • Edina Molnár
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

11 January 2023

With the rapid spread of COVID-19 worldwide, governments of all countries declared the closure of educational institutions to control its transmission. As a result, institutions were under pressure to offer online education opportunities so that stud...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Impact of Covid-19 on Students and Teachers in Higher Education Institutions. Proposals and Policies for Improvement)
  • Article
  • Open Access
53 Citations
12,184 Views
24 Pages

5 November 2020

In non-English-speaking countries, students learning EFL (English as a Foreign Language) without a “real” learning environment mostly shows poor English-learning performance. In order to improve the English-learning effectiveness of EFL s...

(This article belongs to the Collection Virtual and Augmented Reality Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
2,496 Views
13 Pages

The influence of learning approaches, the styles of self-regulation that the student considers in his academic task (self-regulation before, during and after the task) and the perceived academic self-efficacy of university students in their academic...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,098 Views
16 Pages

During the pandemic, universities were forced to convert their educational process online. Students had to adapt to new educational conditions and the proposed online environment. Now, we are back to the traditional blended learning environment and w...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
13,219 Views
18 Pages

7 January 2019

Despite the rapid adoption of bilingual programs (English–Chinese) in Chinese higher education institutions (HEIs), concerns have been raised about perceived language hindrance to students’ academic comprehension and performance. In respo...

(This article belongs to the Section Sustainable Education and Approaches)
  • Article
  • Open Access
47 Citations
6,324 Views
15 Pages

9 November 2022

Virtual learning environment (VLE) is vital in the current age and is being extensively used around the world for knowledge sharing. VLE is helping the distance-learning process, however, it is a challenge to keep students engaged all the time as com...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainable E-learning and Education with Intelligence)
  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
6,083 Views
13 Pages

Previous studies have revealed the restorative effects of exposure to natural environments on psychological well-being and cognitive performance. Recent studies have reported the effects of exposure to nature sounds (e.g., the sounds of birds, rainfa...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Second Edition of Promoting Healthy and Supportive Acoustic Environments: Going beyond the Quietness)
  • Article
  • Open Access
33 Citations
6,818 Views
21 Pages

28 March 2023

Due to COVID-19, the researching of educational data and the improvement of related systems have become increasingly important in recent years. Educational institutions seek more information about their students to find ways to utilize their talents...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
10,529 Views
15 Pages

28 November 2024

The study explores the application of data analytics and machine learning to forecast academic outcomes, with the aim of ensuring effective and sustainable e-learning. Technological study programs in universities often experience high dropout rates,...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Innovation and Sustainability in Inclusive Education)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
5,138 Views
16 Pages

27 February 2025

This research investigates the impact of digital math serious educational games (SEGs) on enhancing math skills and motivation, specifically focusing on first-degree equations for students with learning difficulties. A comparative study was conducted...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue The Role of Motivation and Cognitive and Metacognitive Strategies in Learning across the Lifespan)
  • Article
  • Open Access
53 Citations
10,051 Views
12 Pages

25 April 2022

The long-lasting pandemic has disrupted face–to–face education and has forced higher education institutions to adopt digital learning management systems, albeit many public universities in developing counties could not properly undertake...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Economic and Social Consequences of the COVID-19 Pandemic)
  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
10,245 Views
10 Pages

16 May 2021

The purpose of this study is to examine the effects of middle school students’ learning attitudes and risk perception toward COVID-19 on their poor academic performance since the COVID-19 pandemic began. This study limited the sample to middle school...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Trends, Challenges and Opportunities for Education in the New Agenda 2030)
  • Article
  • Open Access
101 Citations
8,256 Views
19 Pages

Advanced Deep Learning Model for Predicting the Academic Performances of Students in Educational Institutions

  • Laith H. Baniata,
  • Sangwoo Kang,
  • Mohammad A. Alsharaiah and
  • Mohammad H. Baniata

28 February 2024

Educational institutions are increasingly focused on supporting students who may be facing academic challenges, aiming to enhance their educational outcomes through targeted interventions. Within this framework, leveraging advanced deep learning tech...

(This article belongs to the Section Computing and Artificial Intelligence)
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
3,982 Views
12 Pages

Online Learning during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Dental Students’ Perspective and Impact on Academic Performance, One Institution Experience

  • Widya Lestari,
  • Solachuddin J. A. Ichwan,
  • Siti Zakirah Yaakop,
  • Nurina Sabaznur and ,
  • Azlini Ismail and
  • Cortino Sukotjo
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

11 July 2022

Background: The COVID-19 pandemic caused all universities in Malaysia to switch to online learning, including for dental education. The effect of this switch has yet to be assessed. Thus, this study aimed to assess International Islamic University Ma...

(This article belongs to the Section Dental Education)
  • Article
  • Open Access
32 Citations
5,632 Views
17 Pages

3 August 2023

Predicting students’ performance is one of the most important issues in educational data mining. In this study, a method for representing students’ partial sequence of learning activities is proposed, and an early prediction model of stud...

(This article belongs to the Section Computing and Artificial Intelligence)

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