CBIR: a novel identification approach for college students in need based on consumer behavior psychology theory

The accurate identification of students in need is crucial for governments and colleges to allocate resources more effectively and enhance social equity and educational fairness. Existing approaches to identifying students in need rely on manual operations that include manually extracting consumption behavior information, statistical consumption characteristics and principal component analysis. However, this issue may lead to low prediction accuracy and inefficiency in identifying students in need. We design a three-stage framework to accurately identify college students in need from the perspective of consumer behavior psychology. The consumption behavior information is first obtained from the student consumption records using the consumption behavior clustering approach. The consumption behavior matrix is then built by extracting consumption and spatiotemporal information in different periods. Finally, a novel consumption behavior identification ResNeSt (CBIR) model is proposed to identify college students in need accurately. The experimental results on real datasets show that the CBIR model has higher prediction accuracy than the baseline models.