Constructing and predicting school advice for academic achievement
Koen Niemeijer, Remco C. W. Feskens, Georg Krempl, Jesse Koops, Matthieu J. S. Brinkhuis · 2020
Educational tests can be used to estimate pupils' abilities and thereby give an indication of whether their school type is suitable for them. However, tests in education are usually conducted for each content area separately which makes it difficult to combine these results into one single school advice. To help with school advice, we provide a comparison between both domain-specific and domain-agnostic methods for predicting school types. Both use data from a pupil monitoring system in the Netherlands, a system that keeps track of pupils' educational progress over several years by a series of tests measuring multiple skills.