Can School Enrolment and Performance Be Improved by Maximizing Students' Sense of Choice in Elective Subjects?

Autor/inn/en	Lewis, Rhyd; Anderson, Tom; Carroll, Fiona
Titel	Can School Enrolment and Performance Be Improved by Maximizing Students' Sense of Choice in Elective Subjects?
Quelle	In: Journal of Learning Analytics, 7 (2020) 1, S.75-87 (13 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1929-7750
Schlagwörter	Enrollment; Enrollment Influences; Elective Courses; High School Students; Student Attitudes; Personal Autonomy; Foreign Countries; Mathematics; United Kingdom (Wales) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Einschulung; Elective course; Wahlkurs; High school; High schools; Student; Students; Oberschule; Schüler; Schülerin; Studentin; Schülerverhalten; Individuelle Autonomie; Ausland; Mathematik
Abstract	This paper explores a system that attempts to maximize high school students' sense of choice when selecting elective subjects. We propose that individual schools can tailor the combinations of subjects they offer in order to maximize the number of prospective students who can study their preferred subjects, potentially increasing enrolment numbers and academic outcomes while also reducing administrative overheads. We analyze the underlying computational problem encountered in this task and describe a suitable AI-based optimization algorithm that we have made available for free download. We also discuss some outcomes of using this method on a small number of case study schools. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01