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Ornelas, Fermin; Ordonez, Carlos – Technology, Knowledge and Learning, 2017
This research focuses on developing and implementing a continuous Naïve Bayesian classifier for GEAR courses at Rio Salado Community College. Previous implementation efforts of a discrete version did not predict as well, 70%, and had deployment issues. This predictive model has higher prediction, over 90%, accuracy for both at-risk and successful…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Classification, Prediction, Models
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Doyle, William R.; Gorbunov, Alexander V. – Teachers College Record, 2011
Background/Context: The establishment of community colleges in the American states stands as one of the most unique features of our system of postsecondary education. Four possible explanations have been suggested for the growth of community colleges. An economic perspective argues that the development of community colleges came about as a result…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Community Colleges, Social Stratification, Educational Demand
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Fox, J.-P.; Wyrick, Cheryl – Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics, 2008
The randomized response technique ensures that individual item responses, denoted as true item responses, are randomized before observing them and so-called randomized item responses are observed. A relationship is specified between randomized item response data and true item response data. True item response data are modeled with a (non)linear…
Descriptors: Item Response Theory, Models, Markov Processes, Monte Carlo Methods