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Record W4406852901 · doi:10.1016/j.softx.2025.102057

EduGuard RetainX: An advanced analytical dashboard for predicting and improving student retention in tertiary education

2025· article· en· W4406852901 on OpenAlex

Why this work is in the frame

A frame that forgets how it found something cannot be audited. These are the routes that admitted this work.

fundA Canadian funder is recorded on the work.
no affNo Canadian affiliation: this work is invisible to an affiliation-only frame.
No Canadian affiliation. An affiliation-only frame, the usual design, would never have seen this work. It is one of the works that make the case for inverting the frame.

Bibliographic record

VenueSoftwareX · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldComputer Science
TopicOnline Learning and Analytics
Canadian institutionsnot available
FundersMorgan State UniversityInformation and Communications Technology CouncilIndiana State University
KeywordsDashboardComputer scienceHigher educationMultimediaSoftware engineeringPolitical science

Abstract

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Students’ attrition is a critical challenge in higher education, and the EduGuard RetainX software represents a transformative solution. To accurately identify at-risk students, this innovative platform harnesses advanced predictive analytics with knowledge of the personal and institutional costs of student dropout. Using the software, educators can provide students with tailored, student-centric support early on. In addition, the software fosters a collaborative, data-driven culture that allows a wide range of stakeholders to contribute to student success initiatives. The platform has demonstrated significant positive effects and real advantages, as shown by thorough evaluations of its usability using Dowding and Merrill's usability checklist, where it achieved an 89 % usability score. Further, by enabling a shift towards evidence-based practices and a relentless focus on supporting academic achievement and student persistence, the software is poised to completely reshape the higher education landscape.

Fetched live from OpenAlex and de-inverted. Abstracts are not stored in this database: the inverted indexes are 8.6 GB of the frame’s 9.3 GB of text, and the host has 13 GB free.

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Simulation or modeling · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.711
Threshold uncertainty score0.406

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

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.

Opus teacher head0.008
GPT teacher head0.315
Teacher spread0.307 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it