The students dropping out of an open polytechnic of
New Zealand due to failure has been explored by
Kovaic.Z [18].Enrollment data consisting of sociodemographic
variables (age, gender, ethnicity,
education, work status, and disability) and study
environment (course programme and course block),
of 435 students of polytechnic students of
Information system course were collected. The final
label consisting of two categories PASS (those who
completed the course) and FAIL (Those who did not
complete) were considered. Feature selection
indicated that most important attributes for prediction
are ethnicity, course programme and course block.