Service: Understanding the determinants of academic performance from Portuguese secondary education system

Responsible organisation: FCT (Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia) (Central-Government)

Using an anonymous 2014–15 school year dataset from the Directorate-General for Statistics of Education and Science (DGEEC) of the Portuguese Ministry of Education, the work carried out a predictive power comparison between the classic multilinear regression model and a chosen set of machine learning algorithms. A multilinear regression model is used in parallel with random forest, support vector machine, artificial neural network and extreme gradient boosting machine stacking ensemble implementations

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Source Open Innovation Regione Lombardia
Web site https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10639-020-10316-y
Start/end date 2019 - 2021.0
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