Roslan, Nurhana and Mohd Jamil, Jastini and Mohd Shaharanee, Izwan Nizal and Sultan Alawi, Sultan Juma (2025) Prediction of student dropout in malaysian’s private higher education institute using data mining application. Journal of Advanced Research in Applied Sciences and Engineering Technology, 45 (2). pp. 168-176. ISSN 2462-1943
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Abstract
Student dropout issue is a major concern among the academics and management of the university. The higher rate of student dropout impacted the university reputation such as reducing student enrolment, affecting the revenue of the university, financial losses for the country, and increase the existence of a social problem among the students. In this study, 2 popular classifiers were utilized to predict the student dropout namely decision tree and logistic regression model respectively. Several sets of experimental setting were employed which include three set of data partitioning -along with different types of decision tree and regression model. As for the logistic regression model, different data imputation and transformation method was tested to ensure that the model built is valid. A total of 7706 student data extracted from one of the private universities in Malaysia database (between year 2018-2019) to assess the capability of the classifier. The classifier performance is evaluated using machine learningperformance measure of accuracy and misclassification rate. The result indicates that, decision tree -chi-square (2 branches) achieved slightly better classification performance of 89.49% on 80/20 data partitioning. The chosen model also identified the most important variable for accurate prediction of student dropout. Application of this model has the potential to accurately predict at risk student and to reduce student dropout rates
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Educational data mining; Student dropout prediction; Data mining; Student attrition |
| Subjects: | Q Science > QA Mathematics > QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science |
| Divisions: | School of Quantitative Sciences |
| Depositing User: | Mr. Izhar Hj. Hashim |
| Date Deposited: | 02 Nov 2026 11:47 |
| Last Modified: | 02 Nov 2026 11:47 |
| URI: | https://repo.uum.edu.my/id/eprint/32832 |
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