Mark Sheehan
ABSTRACT
Many educational institutions are starting to make use of their scholastic data to improve the academic experience for their students. To aid in this endeavor we have developed a research prototype implementation of a collaborative filtering-based tool called the personalized Grade Prediction Advisor (pGPA). The goal of this prototype tool is to demonstrate the potential of recommender technology by providing grade predictions for upcoming courses in a student's academic career to support decision-making for administrators, students, educators, and academic advisors. In this demonstration we briefly describe the underlying technology and potential applications of pGPA. We then present how a user can interact with pGPA to produce and interpret personalized grade predictions for an individual student or group of students.
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Index Terms
- pGPA: a personalized grade prediction tool to aid student success
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