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Design and Functionality of a University Academic Advisor Chatbot as an Early Intervention to Improve Students’ Academic Performance

Authors : Mei Shyan Lim, Sin-Ban Ho, Ian Chai

Published in: Computational Science and Technology

Publisher: Springer Singapore

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This paper introduces the design and functionality of a university academic advisor chatbot, which leverages on the result of a prediction model to predict students’ academic performance, to do early intervention to assist students who may need academic guidance. The prediction model is based on students’ attendance and scores of formative assessments to predict the score of the final summative assessment using a suitable machine learning algorithm. Scikit-learn library using Python will be used in this research to run the machine learning algorithms. The chatbot will be developed using Dialogflow which is integrated with one of the text messaging apps and established connection to a database. The database stores students’ attendance, scores of formative assessments, scores of final summative assessments and the status of students whom the chatbot has reached out to. This research aims to reduce the workload of lecturers to reach out to every student who is predicted to have problems in their academic studies and at the same time, be able to assist students using a chatbot.

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Title: Design and Functionality of a University Academic Advisor Chatbot as an Early Intervention to Improve Students’ Academic Performance
Authors: Mei Shyan Lim
Sin-Ban Ho
Ian Chai
Publisher: Springer Singapore
Book: Computational Science and Technology
Print ISBN: 978-981-334-068-8

Electronic ISBN: 978-981-334-069-5

Copyright Year: 2021
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-33-4069-5_15

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