A STUDY MODEL ON THE IMPACT OF VARIOUS INDICATORS IN THE PERFORMANCE OF STUDENTS IN HIGHER EDUCATION

Jai Ruby, K. David

Abstract: In this technology revolutionized century knowledge has become a vital resource. Also, Education has been viewed as a crucial factor in contributing to the welfare of the country. Higher education does categorize the students by their academic performance. In higher education institutions a substantial amount of knowledge is hidden and need to be extracted using Knowledge Discovery process. Data mining helps to extract the knowledge from available dataset and should be created as knowledge intelligence for the benefit of the institution. Many factors influence the academic performance of the student. The study model is mainly focused on exploring various indicators that have an effect on the academic performance of the students. The study result shows the impact of various factors affecting the students of higher education system. The extracted information that describes student performance can be stored as intelligent knowledge for decision making to improve the quality of education in institutions

Keywords: Educational Data Mining, Academic Performance, Higher Education, Attribute Selection, Intelligent Knowledge

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15623/ijret.2014.0305139