Silvia Gaftandzhieva,
Rositsa Doneva
University of Plovdiv “Paisii Hilendarski”
https://doi.org/10.53656/ped2025-7.07
Abstract. Student academic performance is an important indicator for measuring the quality of the educational process and contributes to the advancement of higher education institutions in rankings. Predicting student success allows for early prevention of dropout of students from the higher education system. Due to this, researchers have been interested in developing models for predicting student success in recent years. The article analyses the benefits of predicting student success for different stakeholder groups (students, teachers, leadership), which motivate the growing attention to such models. In a comparative perspective, several already developed models for predicting student success, based on machine learning (Machine Learning – ML) and “explainable artificial intelligence” (eXplainable Artificial Intelligence – XAI), are presented.
Keywords: student academic performance; prediction, artificial intelligence; machine learning; eXplainable Artificial Intelligence
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