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A review of applications of data mining techniques for prediction of students’ performance in higher education

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Abstract

This paper brings in an insight of the number of ways the students’ performance can be predicted. The performance of a student plays a vital role in any institution. It is the measure for assessing the academic excellence of any esteemed educational body. Not only the institute but the academic performance matters to the student as well. There is a tough competition in the field of academics. Students spend their sleepless nights turning up the pages of their books. Well, amidst of this, a student tussle with many hardships. At present, there are various methodologies to predict the student's performance and Data mining provides the most scientific and dependable method for predicting the same. Educational data mining is the process behind the evaluation of useful patterns out of huge education databases. These patterns help the educators in predicting the performance of the student. In a way it also helps in advancing effective teaching. Data mining techniques can be useful in culling out the data concerted to specific needs. This paper presents the study to find out the gap in the existing performance prediction methodologies.

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