Optimization of Hyperparameters in Machine Learning for Enhancing Predictions of Student Academic Performance
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Abstract
The prediction of student academic performance with high accuracy is of paramount importance in improving educational outcomes and developing tailored learning methodologies.It also serves as a preventative measure against student dropouts.This study is centered on enhancing the precision of such predictions by optimizing hyperparameters in machine learning techniques.In pursuit of optimal performance, a range of machine learning techniques is compared, and the most accurate one selected for hyperparameter optimization.The adopted method for this optimization is the Grid Search (GS) technique.It is found that hyperparameter optimization in the Gradient Boosting Regression Tree (GBRT) using the GS method bolsters the accuracy of predictions pertaining to student academic performance.The results obtained in this study are validated using a five-fold cross-validation method.This rigorous validation ensures the robustness of our findings.Thus, the study presents a critical contribution to the effective prediction of student academic performance, potentially informing the development of more efficient and personalized educational strategies.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".