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Yu et al. (2021) [https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3430895.3460139 pdf]
Yu et al. (2021) [https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3430895.3460139 pdf]
*Models predicting college dropout for students in residential and fully online program
*Models predicting college dropout for students in residential and fully online program
*Whether the socio-demographic information was included or not, the model showed worse accuracy and true negative rates for students with greater financial needs if they are studying in person
*Whether the socio-demographic information was included or not, the model showed worse accuracy and true negative rates for residential students with greater financial needs
*The model showed better recall for students with greater financial needs, especially for those studying in person
*The model showed better recall for students with greater financial needs, especially for those studying in person

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Yudelson et al. (2014) pdf

  • Models discovering generalizable sub-populations of students across different schools to predict students' learning with Carnegie Learning’s Cognitive Tutor (CLCT)
  • Models trained on schools with a high proportion of low-SES student performed worse than those trained with medium or low proportion
  • Models trained on schools with low, medium proportion of SES students performed similarly well for schools with high proportions of low-SES students


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


Yu et al. (2021) pdf

  • Models predicting college dropout for students in residential and fully online program
  • Whether the socio-demographic information was included or not, the model showed worse accuracy and true negative rates for residential students with greater financial needs
  • The model showed better recall for students with greater financial needs, especially for those studying in person