Mining Retention Rules from Student Transcripts: A Case Study of the Information Systems programme at a Federal University

Abstract

Abstract. Due to the increase in inflows, mainly because of REUNI procedures, and low completion rate also observed in several programmes on Brazilian universities, it is necessary to identify which factors may cause the students to remain in their programmes longer than expected or even leaving the university before their conclusion. In this work, we hypothesize that the combinations of classes that the students have to do in each semester is not appropriated and can cause student retention, leading to a huge loss to the university. Thus, we present a case study of analyzing retention rules in the Information Systems programme at the Federal University of Bahia. With the resulting rule set obtained from mined student transcripts, we discuss how changes can be made in a programme so as to decrease the student retention rates.

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“…Our previous work [Silva et al 2013], conducted an analysis regarding student retention on the Information Systems course at UFBA. Our work aimed at using association rules to identify which courses can contribute to student retention and on which courses a student tends to be approved or failed.…”

“…In this work, our goal is to refine the analysis of retention and academic success of students based on previous identified courses [Silva et al 2013, Santos et al 2014]. …”

Mining Retention Rules from Student Transcripts: A Case Study of the programs at a Federal University

“…III Congresso Brasileiro de Informática na Educação (CBIE 2014) XXV Simpósio Brasileiro de Informática na Educação (SBIE 2014) _______________________________________________________________________ Silva et al [Silva et al 2013] conducted an analysis regarding student retention on the Information Systems course at UFBA. Their work aimed to use association rules to identify which courses can contribute to student retention and on which courses a student tend to be approved or failed.…”

“…The first program analyzed was the Information Systems program [Silva et al 2013], which relevant results were presented in relation to retention. This first initiative also allowed a better calibration of our algorithms.…”

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“…Silva et al (2013) têm como objetivo principal analisar o desempenho acadêmico dos alunos, a fim de destacar quais fatores são responsáveis pela retenção e que podem estar impedindo a conclusão do estudante no tempo regular. Foi utilizado o algoritmo Apriori.…”