Bringing Transparency to Predictive Analytics: A Systematic Comparison of Predictive Modeling Methods in Higher Education

Colleges have increasingly turned to predictive analytics to target at-risk students for additional support. Most of the predictive analytic applications in higher education are proprietary, with private companies offering little transparency about their underlying models. We address this lack of tr...

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Main Authors: Kelli A. Bird, Benjamin L. Castleman, Zachary Mabel, Yifeng Song
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2021-08-01
Series:AERA Open
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1177/23328584211037630