2 papers
cs.CY2025
The Topology of Hardship: Empirical Curriculum Graphs and Structural Bottlenecks in Engineering Degrees
H. R. Paz
Engineering degrees are often perceived as "hard", yet this hardness is usually discussed in terms of content difficulty or student weaknesses rather than as a structural property…
cs.CY2025
The CAPIRE Curriculum Graph: Structural Feature Engineering for Curriculum-Constrained Student Modelling in Higher Education
H. R. Paz
Curricula in long-cycle programmes are usually recorded in institutional databases as linear lists of courses, yet in practice they operate as directed graphs of prerequisite relat…