Attempts prediction by missing data imputation in engineering degree

Abstract

Nowadays, both students performance and its evaluation are important challenges and play a significant role, in general terms. Frequently, the students attempts to pass a specific curriculum subjects, have several fails due to different reasons and, in this context, lack of data adversely affects interesting future analysis for achieving conclusions. As a consequence, data imputation processes must be performed in order to substitute the missing data for estimated values. This paper presents a comparison between two data imputation methods developed by the authors in previous researches, the Adaptive Assignation Algorithm (AAA) based on Multivariate Adaptive Regression Splines (MARS), and the Multivariate Imputation by Chained Equations methodology (MICE). The results obtained demonstrate that both proposed methods achieve good results, specially AAA algorithm.