Students Performance Analysis

Based on Machine Learning

Techniques

Abstract
One of the main concerns of educational entities is improving the
quality of teaching and the academic performance of students. As a
result of this concern, countless studies have been performed to
identify the factors that affect student’s learning. These have helped
to guide students in the correct direction and to change for the
better their students’ habits and personal situation. Since the
appearance of virtual classrooms, the monitoring of the students’ use
of online resources has allowed teachers to identify their learning
habits, analysing some of the reasons for their academic progress or
the lack thereof.

This research analyses different machine learning techniques,

including tree based models and different types of Neural Networks.
The objective is to apply those models to a data set containing data
from a virtual environment and construct performance models that
will allow to predict if a student is going to fail or pass the academic
year. Finally, the factors that have a greatest influence on the
performance of a student are identified and suggestions for the
improvement of those factors are proposed in order to achieve an
increase the pass rate among students.