Influence of socio-economic factors on the Portuguese education system
This paper studies the influence of the socio-economic factors of different municipalities on the educational success of students. To verify the existence of relevant factors to the academic course of the students, datasets were obtained with socio-economic descriptors by municipality, average grade...
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| Formato: | article |
| Idioma: | por |
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2022
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| Texto completo: | https://doi.org/10.34627/rcc.v17i0.282 https://doi.org/10.34627/rcc.v17i0.282 |
| País: | Portugal |
| Oai: | oai:ojs2.journals.uab.pt:article/282 |
| Resumo: | This paper studies the influence of the socio-economic factors of different municipalities on the educational success of students. To verify the existence of relevant factors to the academic course of the students, datasets were obtained with socio-economic descriptors by municipality, average grades of national exams and success rates of students. These datasets were submitted to a K-nearest neighbours technique to allow finding attributes in municipalities with missing values. Classification algorithms were then applied through decision and regression trees, which allowed analyzing which socio-economic attributes were potentially more related to school success. The work performed allowed identifying some factors as targets of potential future studies without, however, verifying strong correlations with any socio-economic attribute. |
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