Affiliation:
1. ISTANBUL ESENYURT UNIVERSITY
2. Turkish Scientific and Technical Research Council, Gebze, Türkiye
3. NİŞANTAŞI ÜNİVERSİTESİ
4. University of Economics - Varna, Bulgaria
Abstract
A homogeneous distribution of students in a class is accepted as a key factor for overall success in primary education. A class of students with similar attributes normally increases academic success. It is also a fact that general academic success might be lower in some classes where students have different intelligence and academic levels. In this study, a class distribution model is proposed by using some data science algorithms over a small number of students’ dataset. With unsupervised and semi supervised learning methods in machine learning and data mining, a group of students is equally distributed to classes, taking into account some criteria. This model divides a group of students into clusters by the considering students’ different qualitative and quantitative characteristics. A draft study is carried out by predicting the effectiveness and efficiency of the presented approaches. In addition, some process elements such as quantitative and qualitative characteristics of a student, data acquisition style, digitalization of attributes, and creating a future prediction are also included in this study. Satisfactory and promising experimental results are received using a set of algorithms over collected datasets for classroom scenarios. As expected, a clear and concrete evaluation between balanced and unbalanced class distributions cannot be performed since these two scenarios for the class distributions cannot be applicable at the same time.
Funder
Governorship of Izmir (İzmir Valiliği) and Çiğli National Education Directorate
Publisher
International Online Journal of Primary Education (IOJPE)
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