openalexFrontiers in Education2026-07-23
Explainable machine learning for early classification of middle school student performance
Mohamed El Jihaoui, Oum El Kheir Abra, Khalifa Mansouri
Identifying students at risk of academic underperformance early is a longstanding difficulty for school systems, and the difficulty is sharpest where socioeconomic inequality is severe. This study presents an interpretable machine learning framework for predicting academic outcom…