Comparison of Different Feature Selection Techniques in Attribute Selection of Learning Style Prediction

  • Authors

    • Haziqah Shamsudin
    • Umi Kalsom Yusof
    • Maziani Sabudin
    2018-12-09
    https://doi.org/10.14419/ijet.v7i4.31.23336
  • Classification Algorithm, Feature Selection, Learning Style, Online Learning.

  • Learning style of specific users on an online learning system is determined based on their interaction and behavior towards the system. The most common online learning theory used in determining the learning style is the Felder-Silverman’s Theory. Many researchers have proposed machine learning algorithms to establish learning style by using the log file attributes. Due to many attributes in predicting the learning style, the performance and efficiency of the classification and prediction are still poor; so far it is only between 58%-85%. This research is conducted to determine the most relevant attributes in predicting the learning style. First, three different feature selection methods are used to select the most relevant number of attributes, which are Rank by Importance (RbI), Recursive Feature Elimination (RFE) and Correlation. Next, five different classifiers are used to evaluate those selected feature selection methods. The classifiers are Support Vector Machine (SVM), Random Forest (RF), k-Nearest Neighbour (KNN), Linear Discriminant Analysis (LDA) and Classification and Regression Tree (CART). From the experiments, RbI has proven to be the most effective feature selection method, with the accuracy improvement from 87% to 91%.

     

     

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    Shamsudin, H., Kalsom Yusof, U., & Sabudin, M. (2018). Comparison of Different Feature Selection Techniques in Attribute Selection of Learning Style Prediction. International Journal of Engineering & Technology, 7(4.31), 28-33. https://doi.org/10.14419/ijet.v7i4.31.23336