Investigating Performances's Progress of Students

This paper investigates how performance of students progresses during their studies. Progression of a student is defined as a tuple that shows how a year average stays the same, increases or decreases compared to first year. Taking the data of two consecutive cohorts and using k-means clustering, five meaningful types of progressions are put in evidence and intuitively visualized with a deviation diagram. Interestingly, in both cohorts students globally progress or remain stable. Still, the two cohorts exhibit differences. A future work is to refine the present aggregative approach and to investigate dependencies between prediction and progression.