Educational Data Mining to Analyze Students Performance – Concept Plan

International Research Journal of Engineering and Technology (IRJET) e-ISSN: 2395 -0056
Volume: 04 Issue: 06 | June -2017 www.irjet.net p-ISSN: 2395-0072
© 2017, IRJET | Impact Factor value: 5.181 | ISO 9001:2008 Certified Journal | Page 606
Educational Data Mining to Analyze Students Performance – Concept
Plan
Prajakta Akerkar1, Yashoda Bhat2, Mona Deshmukh3
1,2Student, VES Institute of Technology
3 Professor, Dept. MCA, VES Institute of Technology, Maharashtra, India
---------------------------------------------------------------------***---------------------------------------------------------------------
Abstract – Data mining is of great significance in the
business world as it aids in decision making and gaining
insights in the data which is stored by the organizations.
Educational institutions store a lot of data related to the
students which is retrieved as and when required by the
management but such kind of retrieval does not provide any
insights into the data and it is extremely tedious for any
human to analyse and derive any decisions from that
information. So the purpose of this paper is to suggest various
techniques that can be used to analyse and derive insights
from the existing data.
Key Words: Educational data mining (EDM), Student’s
Performance, K-means, Naïve Bayesian, Clustering,
Classification
1. INTRODUCTION
Computers can store, process and retrieve any type of
information like text, numbers, images, etc. Data mining is a
knowledge discovery process. Mining in the field of
education is known as Educational Data Mining.
Student’s attendance in class, family income, mother’s
qualification, current knowledge and motivation greatly
influence their performance in exams. [2]
Understanding and analyzing the reasons of poor
performance is necessary because,thatshouldbeavoidedby
the institutions to have a good reputation ahead and notjust
poor performance the reasons for good performanceshould
also be known so that it can be repeated ahead.
There are many data mining algorithms available which can
be applied to the raw data to get the necessary results but
the objective of this paper is to suggest an algorithm
theoretically which can be appliedperfectlytothedata to get
the results. Some of the classic EDM problems are stated as
follows [7]:-
 Classification
 Clustering
 Frequency pattern mining
 Emerging pattern mining
 Visual analytics
 Predictive Modeling.
Major applications of EDM are :
 Developing concept maps
 Social network analysis
 Analysis and visualization of data
 Predicting student performance
 Recommendations for students, teachers and
educational institutions
 Grouping students.
Fig -1: EDM Flow
2. METHODOLOGY
1. Identifying stakeholders
2.
Considering all the people involved in education the
stakeholders can be divided into three groups as follows:-
1. Primary: - These set of people are directly involved in
teaching and learning.
Example – Teachers and Students
2. Secondary: - These set of people are indirectly involved in
the process of teaching and learning they mostly contribute to
the growth of the educational institution
Example – Alumni, Parents, Trustees
Hybrid: - These people are involved in the administrative
process. They mostly do decision making for the institution.
Example – Non-teaching staff, educational planners.

3. Collecting data
Related student data can be collected from the following
sources:
- Several Learning management systems (LMS) track
students information as to when the students has accessed
the learning object, how many times it has been accessed
and the time spent on the learning object each time a student
access it. [5]
- Intelligent tutoring system record data every time a student
submits a solution to a particular problem. The time of
submission, whether the answer is correct or not is captured
by the ITS.
- Offline data: - Here the data is typically captured from the
classroom interaction, student’s attendance, course
information, grades.
Fig -2 : Integrated Learning Management Systems [5]
In this step gather only those fields which are required for the
EDM process these fields are called student related variables.
The judgement parameters not only give an idea about the
marks/grades gained by the student but also the overall
personality of the student.
Following student related variables can be considered:-
Table -1: EDM Judgement Parameters
Sr
No. Judgement Parameters
1 Gender
2 Xth grade/%
3 XIIth grade/%
4 Family income
5 Father's qualification
6 Father's occupation
7 Mother's qualification
8 Mother's occupation
9 Siblings (if any)
10 Siblings qualification
11 Siblings occupation
12
Preferred time to study
(Morning/Afternoon/Night)
13 Interested in higher studies
14 Caste
15 School type (Girls/Boys/Co-ed)
16 Do you have a cell phone
17 Are you active onsocial network?
18 Hobbies
19 Favorite subject
20 Where do you stay? (area)
21
Time spent on travelling
everyday
22
Do you submit assignments on
time
23 Attendance in class
24 Attentiveness in class
25 Do you make notes in class?
26
How many reference books do
you refer for a subject?
Thus a survey can be conducted based upon the above
variables which can be used to judge a student completely.
To classify the students there have to be a predefined set of
classes as mentioned below:-
 Poor
 Satisfactory
 Average
 Good
 Excellent
4. TECHNIQUES OF IMPLEMENTATION
A. Clustering Algorithm
Clustering means grouping data into groups of similar
objects. It is significant in information retrieval and text
mining, scientific data exploration, web analysis, and many
more.
It is unsupervised and statistical data analysis technique.
Cluster analysis is used to break down a large data set into
small subsets called as clusters. Each clusterisa collectionof
similar objects.
Application of clustering to Educational Data Mining:-
K-means is the best clustering algorithm in data mining . It
proposes to partition ‘n’ objects into ‘k’ clusters. The
objective of this technique is to minimize the squared error
function or total intra-cluster variance.
Let X= {x1,x2,x3,……..xn} be the set of data points and V=
{v1,v2,v3,……..vn} be the set of centers.

1) Randomly select “c” cluster centers.
2) Calculate the distance between each data point and
cluster centers using the Euclidean formula.
3) Assign the data point to the cluster center whose
distance from the cluster center is minimum of all the
cluster centers.
4) Recalculate the new cluster center using :
Where, ‘ci’ is the number of data points in ith cluster.
5) Recalculate the distance between eachdata pointandnew
obtained cluster centers.
6) If no data point was reassigned then stop, otherwise
repeat from
step (3). [4,7]
B. Classification Algorithm
Classification is the form of data mining that defines models
having important data classes. Usually decision tree
classification is employed in this technique. In this test data
sets are used to find the accuracy of the classificationrules.If
the accuracy is acceptable the rules can be applied to the
new data tuples. [7]
Naïve Bayesian Algorithm is a classification technique based
on Bayes Theorem with an assumption of independence
among the predictors.
That means it assumes that the presence of a particular
feature in a class is unrelated to the presence of any other
feature.
This algorithm is easy to build and very useful in classifying
large data sets.
Bayes theorem provides a way of calculating posterior
probability P (c|x) from P(c), P(x) and P(x|c). Following is
the equation:-
P(c|x) = P(x|c) P(c)
P(x)
P(c|x) = P(x1|c) x P(x2|c) x…x P(xn|c) x P(c)
This technique works in large student database to evaluate
the results. [1]
4. CONCLUSION
This research paper given the major idea of creating a
concept plan for every student and analyzing eachandevery
student completely through the judgement parameters.
Thus this paper gives a theoretical concept of educational
data mining using by using K-means clustering and Bayes
algorithm to collect the data by conducting a survey, apply
the algorithms and insights for every student. After the
students are classified further action can be taken on each
and every class of students to enhance their performance
and provide more detailed guidance to them.
5. FUTURE WORK
Future enhancements includes implementing this work in
XL Miner tool or KEEL.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
This acknowledgment is a small effort to express my
gratitude to all those who have assisted us during thecourse
of preparing this paper.
We are greatly indebted to express immense pleasure and
sense of gratitude towards our guide and mentorProf.Mona
Deshmukh for her constant support and valuable
encouragement.
We express our heart-felt gratitude to Mr. M. Prabhanath
Nair for his timely inputs.
REFERENCES
[1]Prediction of Students Performance using Educational
Data Mining Ms.Tismy Devasia1, ,Ms.Vinushree T P2,
Mr.Vinayak Hegde3 Department of Computer Science
Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeeth University,Mysuru Campus.
[2] Evolutionary Algorithm Based Rule(s) Generation for
Personalized Courseware Construction in Educational Data
Mining Sreenath. K1, Jeyakumar. G2
Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Amrita
School of Engineering, Coimbatore Amrita Vishwa
Vidyapeetham, Amrita University, India 1
[3] Comparison of applications for educational data mining
in Engineering Education Diego Buenaño Fernández
Facultad de Ingenierías y Ciencias Agropecuarias
Universidad de las Américas Quito, Ecuador Sergio Luján-
Mora Department of Software and Computing Systems
University of Alicante
[4] A Systematic Review on Educational Data Mining Ashish
Dutt, Maizatul Akmar Ismail, and Tutut Herawan.
[5] Educational Data Mining and Big Data Framework for e-
Learning Environment Prakash Kumar Udupi1, Nisha
Sharma2 , S K Jha3 Department of Computing, Middle East
College, Muscat, NIMT, Kurukshetra, Haryana, India,AIIT,
Amity University, Noida, India
[6]Data ware house design for Educational Data Mining
Oswaldo Moscoso-Zea1, Andres-Sampedro1, and Sergio
Luján-Mora2 1Equinoctial Technological University,Faculty
of Engineering, Quito, Ecuador 2University of Alicante,

Department of Software and Computing Systems, Alicante,
Spain.
[7] Educational Data Mining –Applications and Techniques
B.Namratha Assistant Professor, DepartmentofInformation
Technology, Anurag Group of Institutions,RR Dist.,
Hyderabad, Telangana, India Niteesha Sharma Assistant
Professor, Department of Information Technology, Anurag
Group of Institutions,RR Dist., Hyderabad, Telangana, India

Educational Data Mining to Analyze Students Performance – Concept Plan

More Related Content

What's hot (19)

Similar to Educational Data Mining to Analyze Students Performance – Concept Plan (20)

More from IRJET Journal (20)

Recently uploaded (20)

Educational Data Mining to Analyze Students Performance – Concept Plan