Gender and campus based comparative study of students performance at the faculty of computing and information technology of King Abdulaziz University

Abstract EN

The analysis of data has become an important part in how educators assess the overall performance of their students.

It is a critical task and helps everyone involved to understand various attributes of the students’ academic performance at their place of study.

In this work, we critically analyze the performance of the students at the Faculty of Computing and Information Technology (FCIT) from various viewpoints.

We include the students in the Boys Main Campus (BMC), Girls Main Campus (GMC), and Girls Faisaliyah Campus (GFC).

For this purpose we use statistical methods as well as a machine learning algorithm.

Our results show that the girls outperform the boys, and particularly, the GMC performed better overall than the GFC.

This work helps shed light on similar trends in student performance, which can give further insight into various issues that affect the students’ academic achievement levels, and as such, is helpful in FCIT’s academic planning.