Markov Analysis of Students’ Performance and Academic Progress in Higher Education

Abstract

Background: The students’ progression towards completing their higher education degrees possesses stochastic characteristics, and can therefore be modelled as an absorbing Markov chain. Such application would have a high practical value and offer great opportunities for implementation in practice.

Keywords

• higher education
• study programme
• effectiveness indicators
• enrolment prediction
• Markov analyses
• absorbing Markov chain