From Student Risk Prediction to SC2R: Semantics-Constrained Counterfactual Recourse for Educational Decision Support

📅 2026-08-18
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本文提出SC2R框架,通过结合预测模型、整数规划和语义约束等方法,为教育决策提供可行的干预方案,解决学生风险预测后缺乏具体可行干预措施的问题。
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Learning analytics models can identify students at risk of poor performance, but they do not directly indicate which interventions are feasible, actionable, and compatible with educational constraints. This paper introduces SC2R, a semantics-constrained counterfactual recourse framework for educational decision support. SC2R combines a calibrated predictive model, integer-programming-based recourse generation over discrete action variables, a lightweight RDF vocabulary for intervention-plan representation, and SHACL validation for enforcing timing, budget, immutability, and availability constraints. The framework is evaluated offline on the OULAD dataset using snapshots constructed relative to each assessment at two decision horizons. Results show that the predictive component provides strong performance, that compact intervention plans can be generated at scale, and that semantic validation reveals infeasible plans that lighter optimization-only settings would otherwise accept. Rather than claiming causal improvement in student outcomes, this work shows that counterfactual recourse becomes more operationally meaningful in education when recommendations are not only model-valid, but also semantically feasible and machine-checkable.
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learning analytics
counterfactual recourse
educational decision support
intervention plans
semantics-constrained
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semantics-constrained
counterfactual recourse
integer-programming
RDF vocabulary
SHACL validation
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