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* Models predicting undergraduate course grades and average GPA
* Models predicting undergraduate course grades and average GPA
*students of several racial backgrounds were inaccurately predicted to perform worse than other student
 
* Students from low-income households were inaccurately predicted to perform worse for both short-term (final course grade) and long-term (GPA)
* Fairness of model improved if it included only clickstream and survey data


* First-generation college students were inaccurately predicted to lower than class media final course grade and lower average GPA
* First-generation college students were inaccurately predicted to lower than class media final course grade and lower average GPA

Revision as of 08:44, 17 February 2022

Lee and Kizilcec (2020) [pdf]

  • Model predicting college course grade of median or above
  • Out-of-the-box random forest model violates demographic parity and equality of opportunity for URM (underrepresented minority: American Indian, Black, Hawaiian or Pacific Islander, Hispanic, and Multicultural) than for non-URM students (White and Asian)

Yu et al. (2020) [pdf]

  • Models predicting undergraduate course grades and average GPA
  • Students from low-income households were inaccurately predicted to perform worse for both short-term (final course grade) and long-term (GPA)
  • Fairness of model improved if it included only clickstream and survey data
  • First-generation college students were inaccurately predicted to lower than class media final course grade and lower average GPA
  • Fairness of models improved with the inclusion of clickstream and survey data

Riazy et al. (2020) [pdf]

  • Models predicting course outcome of students in a virtual learning environment (VLE)
  • Students with self-declared disability were predicted to pass the course with 16-23 percentage points in favor from the training and test set