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
The idea is to find trends and patterns in huge amounts of historical data and use those patterns to predict the future. The dropout problem got a lot worse in the 1990s when more people started attending college. But some STEM majors are tougher than others. Then it matches the patterns to students who ultimately dropped out.
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