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Table 8 Features level of importance on the predictions performed after the 2nd semester

From: Predicting Master’s students’ academic performance: an empirical study in Germany

Feature

Importance measure

Predicting the Academic_status after the 2nd semester

predicting the Academic_grade after the 2nd semester

Grade_sem2

0.30

0.33

Grade_sem1

0.14

0.22

Culture

0.11

0.07

Distance

0.10

0.06

F_sem2

0.08

0.06

Registered_exams2

0.06

0.05

Registered_exams1

0.05

0.05

F_sem1

0.05

0.04

Enrollment_age

0.04

0.04

Unregistered_exams2

0.03

0.03

Unregistered_exams1

0.02

0.03

Gender

0.02

0.02

  1. Bold values represent the features with most influence on the predictions