A Data Mining Approach to Student Performance Prediction Within Internet-Worked Environments

Recent advances in computing, communications, digital storage technologies, and high-throughput data-acquisition technologies, make it possible to gather and store incredible volumes of data. It creates unprecedented opportunities for large-scale knowledge discovery from huge database. Data mining (DM) technology has emerged as a means of performing this discovery. There are countless researchers working on designing efficient data mining techniques, methods, and algorithms. Many data mining methods and algorithms have been developed and applied in a lot of application fields [1]. Unfortunately, most data mining researchers pay much attention to technique problems for developing data mining models and methods, while little to basic issues of data mining [2]. In this talk, some basic issues of data mining are addressed. What is data mining? What is the product of a data mining process? What are we doing in a data mining process? What is the rule we should obey in a data mining process? Through analyzing existing data mining methods, and domain-driven (or user-driven) data mining models [3-5], we find that we should take a data mining process as a process of knowledge transformation. Based on this understanding of data mining, a conceptual data mining model of domain-oriented data-driven data mining (3DM) is proposed [2]. The relationship between traditional domain-driven (or user-driven) data mining models and our proposed 3DM model is also analyzed. Some domain-oriented data-driven data mining algorithms for mining such knowledge as default rule [6], decision tree [7], and concept lattice [8] from database are proposed. The experiment results for these algorithms are also shown to illustrate the efficiency and performance of the knowledge acquired by our 3DM data mining algorithms.

Data Mining refers to a set of methods applicable to large and complex databases to eliminate the randomness and discover the hidden pattern. Datamining (DM), also known as knowledge discovery from databases (KDD), is the extraction of new knowledge from huge databases. Data mining involves the use of sophisticated data analysis tools to discover previously unknown, valid patterns and relationships in large data sets. Data mining tools can forecast the future trends and activities to support the decision of people. The scope of datamining is associated with Uncovering trends and patterns are a great power for the businesses of all sectors and industries. Modern intrusion detection applications are confronted with a variety of issues. These applications must be reliable, extensible, manageable, and minimal in maintenance costs. Data mining-based intrusion detection systems (IDSs) have shown high accuracy, good generalisation to novel types of intrusion, and stable behaviour in a changing environment in recent years. The number of hidden layers in various neural network topologies is evaluated in order to discover the best neural network. The technique of attempting to discover instances of network attacks by comparing current behaviour to the expected actions of an intruder is known as misuse detection. Artificial neural networks have the ability to detect and classify network activity using data that is limited, incomplete, and nonlinear. The main purpose of this work is to identify privacy and security concerns among cloud computing participants and consumers in a distributed environment. Techniques like Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing (NLP), and Data Mining are combined to automatically identify and uncover patterns from many sorts of materials. Predictive analytics is capable of dealing with both continuous and discontinuous changes. Classification, prediction, and to some extent, affinity analysis constitute the analytical methods employed in predictive analytics. The contemporary study in text or document mining is focusing on syntactic components and the semantic environment. In order to accomplish this, and with the motivation gained from our previous research contributions, we investigated a mining model to classify documents based on the Order of Context, Concept, and Semantic Relations (OCCSR). The use of data mining techniques based on Cloud computing will enable users to retrieve meaningful information from virtually integrated data warehouses, lowering infrastructure and storage costs. Data mining can extract useful and potentially useful information from the cloud. Big Data is typically defined by three characteristics known as the 3Vs (Volume, Velocity and Variety). The surveys approaches, environments, and technologies in key areas for Big Data analytics capabilities and discusses how they aid in the development of analytics solutions for Clouds. The clustering technique belongs to an unsupervised learning and it is used to discover a new set of categories. Grid-based clustering has the shortest processing time, which is typically determined by the size of the grid rather than the data. We compare the performance of three clustering algorithms: hierarchical clustering, density-based clustering, and K Means clustering. The majority of current approaches to detecting misuse involve the use of rule-based expert systems to identify indicators of known attacks. We provide a brief overview of the use of various Artificial Intelligence techniques and their advancements in the design, development, and application of Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS) for protecting computer and communication networks from intruders. The goal of Knowledge Discovery in Data (KDD) is to extract information that is not obvious by using careful and detailed analysis and interpretation. To drive decisions and actions, analytics employs KDD, data mining, text mining, statistical and quantitative analysis, explanatory and predictive models, and advanced and interactive visualisation techniques.

Purpose: The aim of this study is to examine the pattern of women-owned businesses particularly whether country, age, education, citizenship, social class, income, and religion are associated with female entrepreneurship. Theoretical Framework: The study develops a global demographic model of female entrepreneurship using data mining techniques. Design/Methodology/Approach: The study employs a data mining approach on the World Values Survey Wave 7 2017-2020 data that includes 19575 working women in 56 countries. Findings: The results show that the backgrounds of female entrepreneurs are largely heterogenous from one country to another. The most significant factor that influences entrepreneurship is education level while the least is citizenship status. Research, Practical & Social Implications: The study contributes to model a specific set of attributes of female entrepreneurs for each country. Governments could establish appropriate policies to encourage female entrepreneurship that fits with the local environment and is unique to each country. Originality/Value: The study contributes to the use of data mining techniques for producing more comprehensive findings than statistical approaches that are commonly employed in business economics research.

This article describes the trend in the use of learning systems that aims to analyze information generated by students. This information is obtained from the activities of the learning management systems (LMS). The objective is to improve the quality of education and to allow institutions to offer the student a personalized education. For analysis of information, a description of the algorithms associated the data mining is provided. Another aspect considered are the tools that used to manage the data mining algorithms and present the information. Data can be evaluated in such a way as to convert the information collected into useful information, to provide an education tailored to the needs of each student. This approach seeks to improve the effectiveness of education by recognizing patterns in student performance. This article presents a study of the processes for the discovery of knowledge in LMS and the use of data mining techniques for data analysis. This analysis performed in a case study applied to the e-learning platform Moodle. The aim is to provide stakeholders with guidance on the use of information and communication technology tools.

PurposeThis paper aims to investigate the relationship between the students’ digital activities and their academic performance through two stages. In the first stage, students’ digital activities were studied and clustered based on the attributes of their activity log of learning management system (LMS) data set. In the second stage, the significance of the relationship between these profiles and the associated academic performance was tested statistically.Design/methodology/approachThe LMS delivers E-learning courses and keeps track of the students’ activities. Investigating these students’ digital activities became a real challenge. The diversity of students’ involvement in the learning process was proven through the LMS which characterize students’ specific profiles. The Educational Data Mining (EDM) approach was used to discover students’ learning profiles and associated academic performances, where the activity log file exemplified their activities hosted in the LMS. The sample study data is from an undergraduate e-course hosted on the platform of Blackboard LMS offered at a Saudi University during the first semester of the 2019–2020 academic year. The chosen undergraduate course had 25 sections, and the students attending came from science, technology, engineering and math background.FindingsResults show three clusters based on the digital activities of the students. The correlation test shows the statistical significance and proves the effect of the student’s profile on his academic performance. The data analysis shows that students with different profiles can still get similar academic performance using LMS.Originality/valueThis empirical study emphasizes the importance of the EDM approach using clustering techniques which can help the instructor understand how students use the provided LMS content to learn and then can deliver them the best educational experience.

Data mining and knowledge discovery aim at finding useful information from typically massive collections of data, and then extracting useful knowledge from the information. To date a large number of approaches have been proposed to find useful information and discover useful knowledge; for example, decision trees, Bayesian belief networks, evidence theory, rough set theory, fuzzy set theory, kNN (k-nearest-neighborhood) classifier, neural networks, and support vector machines. However, these approaches are based on a specific data type. In the real world, an intelligent system often encounters mixed data types, incomplete information (missing values), and imprecise information (fuzzy conditions). In the UCI (University of California – Irvine) Machine Learning Repository, it can be seen that there are many real world data sets with missing values and mixed data types. It is a challenge to enable machine learning or data mining approaches to deal with mixed data types (Ching, 1995; Coppock, 2003) because there are difficulties in finding a measure of similarity between objects with mixed data type attributes. The problem with mixed data types is a long-standing issue faced in data mining. The emerging techniques targeted at this issue can be classified into three classes as follows: (1) Symbolic data mining approaches plus different discretizers (e.g., Dougherty et al., 1995; Wu, 1996; Kurgan et al., 2004; Diday, 2004; Darmont et al., 2006; Wu et al., 2007) for transformation from continuous data to symbolic data; (2) Numerical data mining approaches plus transformation from symbolic data to numerical data (e.g.,, Kasabov, 2003; Darmont et al., 2006; Hadzic et al., 2007); (3) Hybrid of symbolic data mining approaches and numerical data mining approaches (e.g.,, Tung, 2002; Kasabov, 2003; Leng et al., 2005; Wu et al., 2006). Since hybrid approaches have the potential to exploit the advantages from both symbolic data mining and numerical data mining approaches, this chapter, after discassing the merits and shortcomings of current approaches, focuses on applying Self-Organizing Computing Network Model to construct a hybrid system to solve the problems of knowledge discovery from databases with a diversity of data types. Future trends for data mining on mixed type data are then discussed. Finally a conclusion is presented.

Data mining (DM) is a powerful information technology (IT) tool in today’s competitive business world, especially as our human society entered the Big Data era. From academic point of view, it is an area of the intersection of human intervention, machine learning, mathematical modeling and databases. In recent years, data mining applications have become an important business strategy for most companies that want to attract new customers and retain existing ones. Using mathematical techniques, such as, neural networks, decision trees, mathematical programming, fuzzy logic and statistics, data mining software can help the company discover previously unknown, valid, and actionable information from various and large sources (either databases or open data sources like internet) for crucial business decisions. The algorithms of the mathematical models are implemented through some sort of computer languages, such as C++, JAVA, structured query language (SQL), on-line analysis processing (OLAP) and R. The process of data mining can be categorized as selecting, transforming, mining, and interpreting data. The ultimate goal of doing data mining is to find knowledge from data to support user’s decision. Therefore, data mining is strongly related with knowledge and knowledge management.

By maximising the greatest results and decreasing the number of students who fail, educational institutions aim to improve the quality of education. Improving and developing academic achievement requires the ability to accurately estimate student performance in advance. Using data mining techniques, educational institutions can get valuable insights from the study of educational data. The purpose of this research is to present educational data mining approaches and incorporate them into a web-based platform for forecasting low-performing pupils. Prediction models were compared in a comparative study. High-performance models were then designed to get better results. Hybrid RF, a hybrid random forest algorithm, is the most effective at classifying data. In order to enhance the learning outcomes and intervention methods, a new feature selection approach called MICHI is presented, which is the mixture of similarity measure and chi-square techniques based on ranking feature scores. Using the suggested methodologies for educational data mining, a system for predicting student academic performance will be constructed for academic entrepreneurs to obtain an early forecast of student achievement for prompt treatment. Experiments and surveys demonstrate the utility and efficacy of the academic prediction system that was built. Use of the system aids educators in intervening and enhancing student outcomes.

Many organisations across a variety of industries are engaging in the process of data mining as part of an overall strategy for business intelligence, customer relationship management (CRM), including churn prevention. This paper provides an overview of the data mining process and illustrates a case study in which data mining is utilised as a churn prevention tool for a major Midwest USA newspaper. For this case study, a decision tree, a common modelling technique, was the analytical tool of choice. Lessons learned throughout the data mining process are provided to offer insight and to promote the sharing of information. Strategies for getting started in the data mining process are presented to encourage organisations to embrace a data-driven strategy for business intelligence, CRM and churn prevention.

Aim/Purpose: This research aims to present a brand-new approach for student performance prediction using the Learning Fuzzy Cognitive Map (LFCM) approach. Background: Predicting student academic performance has long been an important research topic in many academic disciplines. Different mathematical models have been employed to predict student performance. Although the available sets of common prediction approaches, such as Artificial Neural Networks (ANN) and regression, work well with large datasets, they face challenges dealing with small sample sizes, limiting their practical applications in real practices. Methodology: Six distinct categories of performance antecedents are adopted here as course characteristics, LMS characteristics, student characteristics, student engagement, student support, and institutional factors, along with measurement items within each category. Furthermore, we assessed the student’s overall performance using three items of student satisfaction score, knowledge construction level, and student GPA. We have collected longitudinal data from 30 postgraduates in four subsequent semesters and analyzed data using the Learning Fuzzy Cognitive Map (LFCM) technique. Contribution: This research proposes a brand new approach, Learning Fuzzy Cognitive Map (LFCM), to predict student performance. Using this approach, we identified the most influential determinants of student performance, such as student engagement. Besides, this research depicts a model of interrelations among the student performance determinants. Findings: The results suggest that the model reasonably predicts the incoming sequence when there is a limited sample size. The results also reveal that students’ total online time and the regularity of learning interval in LMS have the largest effect on overall performance. The student engagement category also has the highest direct effect on student’s overall performance. Recommendations for Practitioners: Academic institutions can use the results and approach developed in this paper to identify students’ performance antecedents, predict the performance, and establish action plans to resolve the shortcomings in the long term. Instructors can adjust their learning methods based on the feedback from students in the short run on the operational level. Recommendation for Researchers: Researchers can use the proposed approach in this research to deal with the problems in other domains, such as using LMS for organizational/institutional education. Besides, they can focus on specific dimensions of the proposed model, such as exploring ways to boost student engagement in the learning process. Impact on Society: Our results revealed that students are at the center of the learning process. The degree to which they are dedicated to learning is the most crucial determinant of the learning outcome. Therefore, learners should consider this finding in order the gain value from the learning process. Future Research: As a potential for future works, the proposed approach could be used in other contexts to test its applicability. Future studies could also improve the performance level of the proposed LFMC model by tuning the model’s elements.

The use of data mining techniques is not new—commonly it is used in various other industries, such as financial services, marketing and manufacturing. The main goal of data mining is to find patterns in a large dataset that yield insight and expertise. Thus, in terms of healthcare, data mining methods have a wide range of uses, including diagnosing cancers, pattern recognition and prognosti-cating patient health outcomes. Each patient's diagnosis at the University of Porto Hospital (Centro Hospitalar Universitário Universitário do Porto) has an ICD-10-CM code. This data can be used to build a predictive model to classify diag-nosis using secondary diagnosis. Three datasets were then created to be tested using data mining techniques. As a result, the algorithm that had the best perfor-mance was the Random Tree (99.8% corrected classified instances) using the third dataset with the five main diagnoses of each patient as parameters

This research study analyzes the different data mining techniques used for the detection of credit card frauds. Additionally, different data mining techniques are properly described in this study. The steps of data mining are clearly explained in this study, which are helpful for recognizing the fraudulent activities. This study is discussing that Bayesian network, and decision tree are the effective techniques of data mining. The issues of data mining are also discussed in this study, which is creating performance issues, and user interaction issues in the financial institutions. Therefore, this study is providing the importance of RF algorithm in the determination of the credit card fraud. Data cleaning, and data visualization, therefore, the machine learning process is allowed to be developed with the support of the data mining process of credit cards. Clustering is the main process that is takes place in this data mining process. Additionally, the sequential pattern is being highlighted by this process, which helps to improve the fraud detection process of credit cards.

Osteoporosis is one of the primary causes of disability and mortality in the elderly. If osteoporosis's significant features can be identified, the risk of developing this disease will be reduced. In recent years, data mining approaches have become a suitable tool for medical researchers. This study applied data mining methods to identify osteoporosis’s significant features. This study applied data from women having osteoporosis or osteopenia in the period 2011-2019 in the Osteoporosis Diagnosis Center, Isfahan, Iran. Data mining methods such as linear regression, naïve bayes, decision tree, support vector machine, random forest, and neural network were implemented on the dataset. This study consisted of 8258 patients’ information, of which 1482 had osteoporosis. The results showed that the support vector machine, decision tree, neural network are the best method based on accuracy, precision, and AUC measures. Six candidate features were age, weight, back pain, low activity, menopause date, and previous fracture. Support vector machine, decision tree, and neural network are the best candidate techniques for predicting osteoporosis. Thin older people are more at risk of osteoporosis than other people. Yet, people with middleweight and middle age are at lower risk of osteoporosis.

Every year students success rate was analysed by the Educational Institutions to develop their Academic standard. To identify the success rate many kinds of techniques are used such as statistics, physical examination and currently ongoing datamining techniques. Data mining Techniques was widely used in many fields, it is also used in the Educational environment known as Educational Data Mining (EDM). Educational data mining generate prototype in solving the research problems in students data and used to locate the unseen patterns in the students detailed dateset. This paper uses the EDM to characterize the distinct factors affecting the students performance by making predictions with efficient algorithms. Educational professionals have to identify the causes for the student failure in academic performance and the students not succeed in completing their education which becomes a social problem these days. The machine learning algorithms help the researchers for evaluation of student’s learning habits, their academic performance and added enhancement if required. This paper would discuss different kinds of algorithms to analyse the economic background of the students which mainly affects the students performance. The dataset was utilized from the UCI Repository of secondary school students performance and analysed using the Weka tool for the datamining process.

Recent developments in computing, communications, digital storage technologies, and high-throughput data-acquisition technologies, make it possible to gather and store incredible volumes of data. It creates unprecedented opportunities for knowledge discovery large-scale database. Data mining technology is a useful tool for this task. It is an emerging area of computational intelligence that offers new theories, techniques, and tools for processing large volumes of data, such as data analysis, decision making, etc. There are countless researchers working on designing efficient data mining techniques, methods, and algorithms. Unfortunately,most data mining researchers pay much attention to technique problems for developing data mining models and methods, while little to basic issues of data mining. What is data mining? What is the product of a data mining process? What are we doing in a data mining process? What is the rule we would obey in a data mining process? What is the relationship between the prior knowledge of domain experts and the knowledgemind from data? In this paper, we will address these basic issues of data mining from the viewpoint of informatics [1]. Data is taken as a manmade format for encoding knowledge about the natural world. We take data mining as a process of knowledge transformation. A domain-oriented data-driven data mining (3DM) model based on a conceptual data mining model is proposed. Some data-driven data mining algorithms are also proposed to show the validity of this model, e.g., the data-driven default rule generation algorithm, data-driven decision tree pre-pruning algorithm and data-driven knowledge acquisition from concept lattice.