2019
DOI: 10.3991/ijai.v1i1.11065
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Bachelor Thesis Analytics: Using Machine Learning to Predict Dropout and Identify Performance Factors

Abstract: <p class="0abstractCxSpLast">The bachelor thesis is commonly a necessary last step towards the first graduation in higher education and constitutes a central key to both further studies in higher education and employment that requires higher education degrees. Thus, completion of the thesis is a desirable outcome for individual students, academic institutions and society, and non-completion is a significant cost. Unfortunately, many academic institutions around the world experience that many thesis proje… Show more

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“…By dispositions, we mean behavioral and cognitive factors such as motivation (to write a master thesis, for instance), engagement, self-regulation skills, strategies and attitudes [43,44]. Such an approach would most likely increase the probability of finding additional factors that influence the master thesis process and increase accuracy, replicability and transferability of prediction models [27,45,46].…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…By dispositions, we mean behavioral and cognitive factors such as motivation (to write a master thesis, for instance), engagement, self-regulation skills, strategies and attitudes [43,44]. Such an approach would most likely increase the probability of finding additional factors that influence the master thesis process and increase accuracy, replicability and transferability of prediction models [27,45,46].…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Most of the studies on online engagement have looked into a course or two while the longitudinal online engagement remains an uncharted territory especially in higher education settings [18,23]. Very few exceptions can be mentioned here.…”
Section: Trajectories Of Engagementmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…writing, it is hoped that students will develop competencies for developing critical thinking, empirical research literacy and synthesis of knowledge and assessment of the truth of information (Nouri et al, 2019). Very little literature regarding the Bachelor's thesis is available.…”
Section: Thesis Examiner Performancementioning
confidence: 99%
“…In higher education, the thesis has been a central element as well as a formal requirement of undergraduate programs for more than a century (Rennie and Brewer, 1987;Wong, 2010). In most universities around the world, a bachelor thesis is a compulsory final step toward graduation in higher education and, thus, is the main key for further study as well as jobs requiring a higher education degree (Nouri et al, 2019). As with many higher education institutions in the world, almost all tertiary education institutions in Indonesia also make thesis preparation a requirement for graduation from the undergraduate level.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%