An Analysis of Significant Factors Affecting Grades Using Student Data

This project tackles a real-world example of a classroom with college students to discover what factors affect a student’s outcome in the class as well as investigate when and why a student who started well in the semester may end poorly later on. First, this project performs a statistical analysis to ensure that the total score of a student is truly based on the factors given in the dataset instead of due to random chance. Next, factors that are the most significant in affecting the outcome of scores in zyBook assignments are discovered. Thirdly, visualization of how students perform over time is displayed for the student body as a whole and students who started well at the beginning of the semester but trailed off towards the end. Lastly, the project also gives insight into the failure metrics for good starter students who unfortunately did not perform as well later in the course.