Colleges are using big data to track students in an effort to boost graduation rates, but it comes at a cost
The Hechinger Report
AUGUST 6, 2019
In meetings with his academic adviser during the second semester of his freshman year, Robinson said he learned that though his GPA was solid, the school’s computer algorithm saw trouble. The idea is to find trends and patterns in huge amounts of historical data and use those patterns to predict the future. It wasn’t always this way.
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