Educational Data Mining

Abstract

Data mining methods and techniques are applied to educationally related data as part of the burgeoning field known as educational data mining (EDM). Education data mining is the name of an emerging multidisciplinary research field that applies data mining (DM) to the field of education. Its focus is on creating tools for examining the distinctive kinds of data that emerge from educational settings. The discipline’s main goal is to analyse educational data and create models that will enhance learning opportunities and institutional effectiveness. a survey of the literature on issues related to personal recommender systems in education, student retention and attrition, and the use of data mining to examine course management system data.