Achievement Prediction of English Majors Based on Analytic Hierarchy Process and Genetic Algorithm

Abstract

The prediction and analysis of student achievement aim to realize personalized guidance for students and improve student achievement and teacher’s teaching achievement. Student achievement is affected by many factors such as family environment, learning conditions, and individual performance. Traditional prediction methods often ignore that different factors have different effects on the same student’s score, and different students have different effects on the same factor, so the model constructed cannot realize personalized analysis and guidance for students. Therefore, this paper proposes a prediction model based on the analytic hierarchy process and genetic algorithm. Firstly, according to the relationship among different levels, the analytic hierarchy process (AHP) model is established. Then, a k-means clustering algorithm is used to process the experimental data. Secondly, in order to get rid of the negative impact of the randomness of the initial threshold and weight on model prediction accuracy, which leads to the prediction result falling into a local minimum, a genetic algorithm is proposed to find the optimal initial threshold and weight of model first. Finally, a prediction model based on the BP neural network is established to predict students’ scores, which proves that the prediction effect is good. The experiment was conducted with English major students in a university as the research object. Experimental results show that compared with traditional data mining methods, the proposed method has better prediction accuracy.