Academic Achievements: Grades Versus Duration

Grades, Course Evaluations, and Academic Incentives

We develop a model that identifies a range of new and somewhat counterintuitive results about how the incentives created by academic institutions affect student and faculty behavior. The model provides a theoretical basis for grade inflation and the behavioral response of students. Comparative statics are used to analyze the effects of institutional expectations placed on faculty. The results s...

Data-driven system to predict academic grades and dropout

Nowadays, the role of a tutor is more important than ever to prevent students dropout and improve their academic performance. This work proposes a data-driven system to extract relevant information hidden in the student academic data and, thus, help tutors to offer their pupils a more proactive personal guidance. In particular, our system, based on machine learning techniques, makes predictions...

Role of the Language School’s Principals in Academic Achievements

This study investigated the role of the principal in managing teaching and learning. It examined how and to whom principals distributed the management of teaching and learning.  It was found that participants thought principals could improve school effectiveness most by engaging in activities that develop a good climate and ensure appropriate resources are available for instruction. There is a ...

Academic general practice: a viewpoint on achievements and challenges.

Uniting Academic Achievements on Performance Analysis with Industrial Needs

In our mission to advance innovation by industrial adoption of academic results, we perform many projects with high-tech industries. Favoring formal methods, we observe a gap between industrial needs in performance modeling and the analysis capabilities of formal methods for this goal. After clarifying this gap, we highlight some relevant deficiencies for state-of-the-art quantitative analysis ...