Youssef El Marzak

Work place: Laboratory of Modelling and Simulation of Intelligent Industrial Systems, ENSET of Mohammedia, Hassan II University of Casablanca, Morocco

E-mail: youssef.elmarzak-etu@etu.univh2c.ma

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Biography

Youssef El Marzak was a PhD candidate at the Higher Normal School of Technical Education (ENSET) in Mohammedia, Hassan II University of Casablanca. His research focuses on information systems, cybersecurity, and digital governance. Since 2021, he has been serving as a part-time lecturer at the Higher School of Technology, Ibn Zohr University in Dakhla, where he teaches computer science courses and supervises student projects From 2015 to 2022, he worked as a teacher and coordinator of the Computer Systems Development program at the Higher Technician Certificate Center (BTS) in Dakhla. In this role, he oversaw curriculum design, program coordination, and student career preparation.

Author Articles
Patterns and Predictors of Student Technological Proficiency in Heis: A Validated Instrument and Machine Learning Analysis

By Abdelilah Chahid Youssef El Marzak Ossama Aouane Khalifa Mansouri

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5815/ijmecs.2026.03.06, Pub. Date: 8 Jun. 2026

This study examines AI-related technological proficiency among undergraduate students at the University of Casablanca and identifies the most informative indicators for prediction. Using a validated 30-item instrument covering AI applications, AI-related skills, and improvement strategies, data were collected from 600 students drawn from science and humanities programs. Overall proficiency was moderate: 63.3% of respondents met the predefined threshold, and significant group differences were observed by gender and academic specialization. For predictive modeling, correlation-based feature selection retained 17 high-value items. Two classifiers were then trained and evaluated using a 75/25 hold-out split, complemented by repeated stratified 10-fold cross-validation to assess stability. The Support Vector Classifier achieved 96.7% test accuracy with AUROC = 0.9666, while Gaussian Naïve Bayes reached 94.7% accuracy with AUROC = 0.9560; cross-validated estimates remained consistent with these results, supporting robustness. These findings indicate that a reduced set of questionnaire items can provide reliable estimates of students’ AI-related technological proficiency and can support scalable assessment and targeted interventions in higher education.

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