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We’re proud to share that the 3rd cohort of students from RSM’s Project-Based Research class presented their work at the prestigious NEERO (New England Educational Research Organization) Conference!
RSM students stood out as the only high schoolers among university-level researchers and education professionals!
This year’s research team included RSM Regional Director Sona Antonyan, alongside RSM faculty Manasi Singhal, Larry Ludlow, Maria Kosogorova, Oksana Ilina, Jenya Brodskaya, Anna Mirny, and students Sourav Sinha, Ishan Jetwan, Vidhyuth Venugopal, Yamato Murakami, and Mikhail Pevunov. In this unique class, RSM students partner with teachers as co-researchers. This year’s team focused on predicting academic placement for fourth-grade RSM students using online learning behavior data.
The project had four ambitious goals:
1. Predict next-year placement outcomes using machine learning models;
2. Identify work habits that most influence placement decisions;
3. Create data-driven recommendations to help students succeed;
4. And, analyze mispredictions to explore the human side of decision-making.
Using three different machine learning algorithms, the team explored patterns in student performance and behavior between 2020 and 2023, analyzing factors that determine whether a student advances to an Advanced or Honors level, or why they might remain in their current track.
The group’s key recommendations for students hoping to improve their academic outcomes at RSM include:
- Don’t lose focus: People with more than 15 minutes between attempts on the same problem have lower results.
- Start your homework early: Students who work on their homework within two days after class will have an easier time remembering the material and are more likely to succeed.
- Keep the pace: If you get the habit of working faster at home, you’ll achieve more in class.
- Don’t play guess and check: You can solve a problem in one attempt. If you do not solve a problem in two or more attempts, something might be wrong.
This research not only gave students hands-on experience with real data and tools but also empowered them to better understand the academic decisions that helped shape their own learning paths.
We’re thrilled to see our students contributing to the larger educational research community and can’t wait to see where their curiosity leads them next!
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