The Elusive Metrics-Are We Telling the Full Story in Educational Data Mining?

Keith Quille, Keith Nolan, Stephen Colgan

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Abstract

The use of Education Data Mining (EDM) has seen a significant increase in recent years. A recent report identified notable concerns with the literature relating to the lack of metrics presented in EDM research (in particular, predicting student performance). This poster presents details on these concerns that may inhibit future re-validation studies or worse, models that initially report strong findings which may not generalise. This poster also declares a call to action for future studies to present such metrics, and finally describes ongoing work in this space (a systematic literature review).

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationITiCSE 2021 - Proceedings of the 26th ACM Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery
Pages642
Number of pages1
ISBN (Electronic)9781450383974
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 26 Jun 2021
Event26th ACM Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education, ITiCSE 2021 - Virtual, Online, Germany
Duration: 26 Jun 20211 Jul 2021

Publication series

NameAnnual Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education, ITiCSE
ISSN (Print)1942-647X

Conference

Conference26th ACM Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education, ITiCSE 2021
Country/TerritoryGermany
CityVirtual, Online
Period26/06/211/07/21

Keywords

  • EDM
  • educational data mining
  • metrics
  • re-validation

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