Journal
EXPERT SYSTEMS WITH APPLICATIONS
Volume 38, Issue 12, Pages 15020-15031Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2011.05.044
Keywords
Educational data mining; Multiple instance learning; Traditional supervised learning
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In this paper, a new approach based on multiple instance learning is proposed to predict student's performance and to improve the obtained results using a classical single instance learning. Multiple instance learning provides a more suitable and optimized representation that is adapted to available information of each student and course eliminating the missing values that make difficult to find efficient solutions when traditional supervised learning is used. To check the efficiency of the new proposed representation, the most popular techniques of traditional supervised learning based on single instances are compared to those based on multiple instance learning. Computational experiments show that when the problem is regarded as a multiple instance one, performance is significantly better and the weaknesses of single-instance representation are overcome. (C) 2011 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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