Document Type
Article
Source of Publication
International Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Publication Date
10-1-2022
Abstract
Web-based learning technologies of educational institutions store a massive amount of interaction data which can be helpful to predict students’ performance through the aid of machine learning algorithms. With this, various researchers focused on studying ensemble learning methods as it is known to improve the predictive accuracy of traditional classification algorithms. This study proposed an approach for enhancing the performance prediction of different single classification algorithms by using them as base classifiers of homogeneous ensembles (bagging and boosting) and heterogeneous ensembles (voting and stacking). The model utilized various single classifiers such as multilayer perceptron or neural networks (NN), random forest (RF), naïve Bayes (NB), J48, JRip, OneR, logistic regression (LR), k-nearest neighbor (KNN), and support vector machine (SVM) to determine the base classifiers of the ensembles. In addition, the study made use of the University of California Irvine (UCI) open-access student dataset to predict students’ performance. The comparative analysis of the model’s accuracy showed that the best-performing single classifier’s accuracy increased further from 93.10% to 93.68% when used as a base classifier of a voting ensemble method. Moreover, results in this study showed that voting heterogeneous ensemble performed slightly better than bagging and boosting homogeneous ensemble methods.
DOI Link
ISSN
Publisher
Institute of Advanced Engineering and Science
Volume
12
Issue
5
First Page
5226
Last Page
5235
Disciplines
Computer Sciences
Keywords
Bagging and boosting, Ensemble methods, Machine learning, Student performance prediction, Weka experiment
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Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International License.
Recommended Citation
Evangelista, Edmund and Sy, Benedict, "An approach for improved students’ performance prediction using homogeneous and heterogeneous ensemble methods" (2022). All Works. 5254.
https://zuscholars.zu.ac.ae/works/5254
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yes
Open Access
yes
Open Access Type
Hybrid: This publication is openly available in a subscription-based journal/series