论文标题
评估学生绩效预测问题中的团体公平措施
Evaluation of group fairness measures in student performance prediction problems
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论文摘要
预测学生的学习成绩是教育数据挖掘（EDM）的关键任务之一。传统上，这种模型的高预测质量被认为至关重要。最近，公平和歧视W.R.T.受保护的属性（例如性别或种族）引起了人们的关注。尽管EDM中有几种公平感知的学习方法，但对这些措施的比较评估仍然缺失。在本文中，我们评估了各种教育数据集和公平意识学习模型上学生绩效预测问题的不同群体公平措施。我们的研究表明，公平度量措施的选择很重要，对于选择等级阈值的选择也很重要。
Predicting students' academic performance is one of the key tasks of educational data mining (EDM). Traditionally, the high forecasting quality of such models was deemed critical. More recently, the issues of fairness and discrimination w.r.t. protected attributes, such as gender or race, have gained attention. Although there are several fairness-aware learning approaches in EDM, a comparative evaluation of these measures is still missing. In this paper, we evaluate different group fairness measures for student performance prediction problems on various educational datasets and fairness-aware learning models. Our study shows that the choice of the fairness measure is important, likewise for the choice of the grade threshold.
