Student Success Analytics
The students at risk were the ones whose grades looked fine
Student demographics, academic records, engagement with the learning platform, and risk labels, read with SQL and Excel against five intervention questions.
Low attendance combined with low forum activity predicted risk better than GPA alone. The segment worth naming is the one a GPA threshold never flags: high grades, zero engagement. On paper those students look fine. That is the whole finding, and it is the kind that only shows up when you measure the second thing as well as the obvious one.
It is analysis rather than machine learning, and it should not be described as anything else.
What this does not do
- It is analysis in SQL and Excel, not machine learning.