students_dropout_and_academic_success

This dataset was curated for [TabArena](https://tabarena.ai/) by the TabArena team as part of the [TabArena Tabular ML IID Study](https://tabarena.ai/data-tabular-ml-iid-study). For more details on the study, see our [paper](https://tabarena.ai/paper-tabular-ml-iid-study). **Dataset Focus**: This dataset shall be used for evaluating predictive machine learning models for independent and identically distributed tabular data. The intended task is classification. --- #### Dataset Metadata - **Licence:** CC BY 4.0 - **Original Data Source:** https://doi.org/10.24432/C5MC89 - **Reference (please cite)**: Martins, Monica V., et al. 'Early prediction of students performance in higher education: A case study.' Trends and Applications in Information Systems and Technologies: Volume 1 9. Springer International Publishing, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-72657-7_16 - **Dataset Year:** 2021 - **Dataset Description:** see the reference and the original data source for details. #### Curation comments by the TabArena team (for code see the [page of the study](https://tabarena.ai/data-tabular-ml-iid-study)): - We renamed the target variable and fixed some typos in the feature names. - We reversed the ordinal encoding of all categorical features. - We removed whitespaces and special characters from the feature names.