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Using predictive modelling to create the school dropouts' profile: a case study regarding elementary and high school students
| Resumo: | The students’ disengagement with school is a worldwide contemporary topic, which has been to lengthy discussions. This event may be an indicator of the possibility of a precocious school dropout, becoming a burden for the students’ families, schools and the Government. This study focused only on a school located in Amadora, where the school dropout rate is quite significant. The main purpose of the present thesis is to understand students' proneness to quit school in a premature fashion. A dataset containing all the pupils’ information available in that institution considered was transformed, trained and tested in order to produce a detailed analysis. The main conclusions taken from the study are that the students’ characteristics and familiar context play the major role in their likeliness to dropout school. |
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| Autores principais: | Momade, Maria Matilde de Magalhães Fechas |
| Assunto: | Education Students Parents Community Educação Estudantes Pais Comunidade |
| Ano: | 2020 |
| País: | Portugal |
| Tipo de documento: | dissertação de mestrado |
| Tipo de acesso: | acesso aberto |
| Instituição associada: | Universidade Nova de Lisboa |
| Idioma: | inglês |
| Origem: | Repositório Institucional da UNL |
| Resumo: | The students’ disengagement with school is a worldwide contemporary topic, which has been to lengthy discussions. This event may be an indicator of the possibility of a precocious school dropout, becoming a burden for the students’ families, schools and the Government. This study focused only on a school located in Amadora, where the school dropout rate is quite significant. The main purpose of the present thesis is to understand students' proneness to quit school in a premature fashion. A dataset containing all the pupils’ information available in that institution considered was transformed, trained and tested in order to produce a detailed analysis. The main conclusions taken from the study are that the students’ characteristics and familiar context play the major role in their likeliness to dropout school. |
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