Ensemble Machine Learning for Student Performance Prediction in Higher Education: A Critical Review of Predictive Gains, Methodological Quality and Deployment Constraints
Okwedi Kelicha, Ugochukwu Febechi Blessing, Adanna Anyanwu & Chukwueke Nwagbara · Asian Journal of Research in Computer Science · 2026
Ensemble machine learning has become the default modelling strategy in research on the prediction of student academic performance in higher education, and published comparisons routinely report that bagged, boosted and stacked combinations of base classifiers outperform single le...