{"about":{"site":"https://codewithpapers.app","non_affiliation":"Code with Papers and Syntology are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Papers with Code, Meta, or the pwc-archive mirror.","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","attribution":"https://codewithpapers.app/attribution","modified":"archive material modified by Syntology; see the attribution page"},"url":"/paper/goal-based-course-recommendation","title":"Goal-based Course Recommendation","arxiv_id":"1812.10078","date":"2018-12-25","proceeding":null,"authors":["Weijie Jiang","Zachary A. Pardos","Qiang Wei"],"abstract":"With cross-disciplinary academic interests increasing and academic advising\nresources over capacity, the importance of exploring data-assisted methods to\nsupport student decision making has never been higher. We build on the findings\nand methodologies of a quickly developing literature around prediction and\nrecommendation in higher education and develop a novel recurrent neural\nnetwork-based recommendation system for suggesting courses to help students\nprepare for target courses of interest, personalized to their estimated prior\nknowledge background and zone of proximal development. We validate the model\nusing tests of grade prediction and the ability to recover prerequisite\nrelationships articulated by the university. In the third validation, we run\nthe fully personalized recommendation for students the semester before taking a\nhistorically difficult course and observe differential overlap with our\nwould-be suggestions. While not proof of causal effectiveness, these three\nevaluation perspectives on the performance of the goal-based model build\nconfidence and bring us one step closer to deployment of this personalized\ncourse preparation affordance in the wild.","url_abs":"http://arxiv.org/abs/1812.10078v1","url_pdf":"http://arxiv.org/pdf/1812.10078v1.pdf","source":{"archive":"pwc-archive (Hugging Face), CC BY-SA 4.0","snapshot":"2025-07-28","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","row_kind":"abstracts"},"code_links":[{"paper_slug":"goal-based-course-recommendation","repo_url":"https://github.com/CAHLR/goal-based-recommendation","is_official":1,"mentioned_in_paper":1,"mentioned_in_github":0,"framework":"pytorch","reach":null}],"tasks":[{"task_slug":"decision-making","task_name":"Decision Making"}],"methods":[],"datasets_introduced":[],"methods_introduced":[],"results":[],"syntology":{"atlas_url":null,"mcp":null,"developers":"https://syntology.ai/developers"},"arxiv_metadata":null,"syntology_extracted_results":null}