Final Capstone Project

Relationship between a good grade

and other factors in a secondary
school
 Data that I used
❖ The data were obtained in a survey of students math and
portuguese language courses in secondary school. It contains a lot
of interesting social, gender and study information about students.

❖ I especially, focused on students mathematics data.

❖ https://www.kaggle.com/uciml/student-alcohol-
consumption#student-mat.csv
 Data Variables
❖ The data set has so many different variables from
girlfriend to boyfriend, from study time to internet,
from alcohol usage to absences and so on.

❖ I especially, focused on alcohol consumption,family

support, family education level,want a higher
education.
 Goal of the Study
❖ As a veteran educator, I always want to
identify correlations between good grades
and other issues in students life.

❖ That is why this study is dedicated to figure

out that correlations.
Grades Correlation
★When I analyzed this data set, the
biggest correlation is between
grades which are G1(first
grade),G2(second grade) and
G3(final grade).
Correlation between alcohol
and grades
Dalc
here we can see all students
count 395.000000
descriptive data regarding alcohol
1.481013
mean consumption.
std 0.890741
Dalc - workday alcohol
min 1.000000

1.000000
consumption (numeric: from 1 -
25%

50% 1.000000
very low to 5 - very high)
75% 2.000000

max 5.000000
Correlation between alcohol
and grades
Dalc
so important info here:
count 395.000000

1.481013
mean
look at the minimum, it is 1 which
means,
std 0.890741

min 1.000000
everyone drink once at least,
25% 1.000000

50% 1.000000
there is no one who does not
75% 2.000000
drink!
max 5.000000
Weekday Alcohol Consumption
Distribution
We can see all students
weekday alcohol
consumption, there is no
student who does not
consume alcohol weekday.
Majority of the students drink
at least once a week.
Weekday Versus Weekend

1. Dalc - workday alcohol

consumption (numeric:
from 1 - very low to 5 - very
high)
2. Walc - weekend alcohol
consumption (numeric:
from 1 - very low to 5 - very
high)
Final Grade Distribution

We can see all

students final grade
distribution at this given
histogram

Most of the students are

getting grades between 10
and 15 out of 20.
Weekday Alcohol Versus
Final Grades
Box plots visually
illustrate the distribution of
final grades over the
weekday alcohol
consumption.
Weekday Alcohol Versus Final
Grades & Correlation Coefficient

The correlation
coefficient between
weekday alcohol and final
grade is 0.054 which
indicates that there is no
correlation between them!

It is so surprising for
me!!
Let’s Be More Careful Here
Seemingly no correlation.
Get ready for surprising fact, don't get started drinking.
Since we don't have any student who does not drink , we
cannot say that there is no correlation.If we had one group
who drink and another group who does not drink, we could
get much more accurate outcomes, results and some
correlation between alcohol and grades. That is why I am
going to separate students into two groups, ones who drink
less, others who drink more.
 It Is Time To Test It!!!
student_drink_less =
student_df.iloc[(student_df['
Dalc'] == 1).values]
student_drink_much =
student_df.iloc[(student_df['
Dalc'] >= 2).values]
stats.ttest_ind(student_drink_
less['G3'],
student_drink_much['G3'])
In order to avoid that mistake
mentioned above, we will separate
the students into two groups. group
one are the ones who drink alcohol
once and group two are the ones
who drink 2 or more weekday.
When i run t test here, I got p
value=0.036, which is so much less
than alpha level, so we reject null
hypothesis.
which means that there is a
significant difference in mean of
students final grade compared the
ones who drink alcohol once to the
ones who drink 2 or more.
# according to this data set, drinking
once looks fine :)
Mothers Education Level
Versus Final Grades
Students who get the
highest median score are
the ones whose mother is
most educated.
 Mothers Education Level
Versus Final Grades
I just wanted to look into this
more 'correlation between final
grade and mother's education
level.
I separated the students into two
groups.
Group one are the ones who
have mother education level 2 or
less
Group two are the ones who
have mother education level 3 or
more
When I run t test here, I got p
value=0.0002, which is so so much
less than alpha level, we reject
null hypothesis.
which means that there is a very
significant difference in mean of
students final grade
compared the ones who have
mother education level 2 or less
to the ones who have mother
education level 3 or more .
Further Study
Suggestions
I have identified more correlations between
students grades and other factors but they
need more attention in the further studies.
Wants Higher Level Education

Ones who wants higher

education have much more
better final grades as you
see.
Family Support
We see something surprising
here, there is not much
difference in final grade of
students who consume alcohol
even if they family support or
not.
But this should be
mentioned that those who
consume 4 or 5 times weekday,
their scores are getting better
with family support.
 Father's Education Level
Versus Mother's Education
Level.
1-Surprisingly, there is a
strong correlation between
father's education level and
mother's education level. 2-The correlation coefficient
between between father's
education level and
3-This could be mother's education level is
investigated in further 0.62
studies.