# Transfer Learning from Deep Neural Networks for Predicting Student Performance
## 4 Research Methodology
### The Proposed Transfer Learning Approach
If someone has only the target task, but also has the ability to choose a limited number of additional training data to collect, then active learning algorithms can be used to make choices that will improve the performance on the target task. These algorithms may also be combined into active transfer learning [33]. The authors declare no conflict of interest. ## References

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