GLoW SMOTE-D: Oversampling Technique to Improve Prediction Model Performance of Students Failure in Courses

Limanto, Susana and Buliali, Joko Lianto and Saikhu, Ahmad (2024) GLoW SMOTE-D: Oversampling Technique to Improve Prediction Model Performance of Students Failure in Courses. IEEE Access, 12 (-). pp. 8889-8901. ISSN 2169-3536

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Abstract

The percentage of passing courses is dependent on the assistance provided to students. To ensure the effectiveness of these efforts, identifying students at risk of course failure as early as possible is crucial. The list of students at risk can be generated through academic performance prediction based on historical data. However, the number of students failing (7%) is significantly lower than the number succeeding (93%), resulting in a class imbalance that hampers performance. A widely adopted technique for addressing class imbalance issues is synthetic sample oversampling. Many oversampling techniques neglect discrete features, whereas the existing technique for discrete features treats all features uniformly and does not select samples as a basis for generating synthetic data. This limitation is capable of introducing noise and borderline samples. As a result, this study introduced a novel discrete feature oversampling technique called GLoW SMOTE-D. This technique accelerated the improvement of minority sample learning by performing multiple selections and multiple weighting in order to effectively reduce noise. Experimental results showed that this technique significantly enhanced the performance of students’ failure in the course prediction model when compared to various other techniques across a range of performance measures and classifiers.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Discrete, imbalanced dataset, oversampling, students’ failure
Subjects:	L Education > L Education (General) Q Science > Q Science (General) T Technology > T Technology (General)
Divisions:	Faculty of Engineering > Department of Informatic
Depositing User:	Susana 6169
Date Deposited:	23 Jan 2024 08:47
Last Modified:	23 Jan 2024 08:47
URI:	http://repository.ubaya.ac.id/id/eprint/45771

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