A Case Based Reasoning View of School Dropout Screening

• Autor(a) principal: Neves, José
• Data de Publicação: 2016
• Outros Autores: Figueiredo, Margarida, Vicente, Lídia, Vicente, Henrique
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositórios Científicos de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (RCAAP)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10174/17483; https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-0557-2_91
• topic: School Dropout; Case Based Reasoning; Logic Programming; Knowledge Representation and Reasoning; Similarity Analysis

The cause for student dropout is often termed as the antecedent of failure, since it stands for a key event, which leads to dropout. Indeed, school dropout is well thought out as one of the major worries of our times. It is a multi-layered and complex phenomenon, with many triggers, namely academic striving and failure, poor attendance, retention, disengagement from school or even socio-economic motives. School dropout represents economic and social losses to the individual, family and community. However, it may be prevented if the educational actors hold pro-active strategies (e.g., taking into account similar past experiences). Indeed, this work will start with the development of a decision support system to assess school dropout, centered on a formal framework based on Logic Programming for Knowledge Representation, complemented with a Case-Based Reasoning approach to problem solving, which caters for the handling of incomplete, unknown, or even contradictory information, i.e., it improves the analysis enactment of the retrieving cases process.