Research Article

EMT: Ensemble Meta-Based Tree Model for Predicting Student Performance

Table 2

Summary of the common classifiers which are used in predicting student performance.

Research studyMain results

[28](i) SMO, NaiveBayesSimple, and BayesNet obtained the highest accuracy and F-measure.

[17](i) Decision tree models (REPTree) had a high prediction accuracy.
(ii) REPTree was less sensitive to missing values than J48.

[15](i) Neural network and Naive Bayes classification with SMOTE technique had a high accuracy with 75%.
(ii) Naive Bayes and neural network models produced almost similar accuracy level when the discretization method was applied. Decision tree had less accuracy for both methods.

[31](i) Three decision tree algorithms C4.5, CART, and ID3 were applied and the result indicated that C4.5 is the best classifier for prediction of student performance.

[29](i) Six classification algorithms considered were Naïve Bayes (NB), Unpruned Decision Tree5 (DT), logistic regression, support vector machine using an ANOVA kernal function (SVM), neural network (NN), and k-nearest neighbor (k-NN).
(ii) The results indicated that all algorithms had a good predictive accuracy for young students and KNN predicted very well for old students and the rest of the classifiers were poor.

[27](i) Two algorithms were used: J48 and random tree.
(ii) The result showed that random tree model was more accurate than J48.

[14](i) NBTree classification was performed with a pretty good accuracy.

[11](i) This study used C4.5, AODE, Naïve Bayesian, multi label k-nearest neighbor algorithms.
(ii) The result concluded that multilabelled k-nearest neighbor had the best accuracy among the others (C4.5, AODE, and Naïve Bayesian).
[20](i) Three algorithms were compared: C4.5, multilayer perceptron, and Naive Bayes.
(ii) Naive Bayes has a good prediction accuracy.

[4](i) Four classifiers were investigated: J48 DT, NB, SMO, and MLP.
(ii) The results show that J48 DT algorithm achieves the best performance compared to the other algorithms with an accuracy of 84.8%.

[2](i) BN, NB, SVM, C4.5, and CART are used to build the learning model to predict student performance.
(ii) SVM is the best classifier compared to the other BN, NB, C4.5, and CART.

[1](i) Two main algorithms, decision stump and J48, were applied.
(ii) J48 provides more accuracy.