- Title
- Educational data mining for students' performance based on fuzzy C-means clustering
- Creator
- Li, Yu; Gou, Jin; Fan, Zongwen
- Relation
- The Journal of Engineering Vol. 2019, Issue 11, p. 8245-8250
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1049/joe.2019.0938
- Publisher
- The Institution of Engineering & Technology
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2019
- Description
- Education greatly aids in the process of students' growth; therefore, education institutions try to provide high-quality education to their students. A possible remedy to provide high-quality education is by discovering knowledge from educational data. However, accurately evaluating students' performance is very challenging due to different sources and structures of educational data. In addition, different teaching strategies are required because students' learning ability are different. One way to discover the hidden knowledge from educational data is the use of clustering algorithms, which are capable of mining interesting patterns from educational data. Thus, this study presents a fuzzy C-means clustering algorithm using 2D and 3D clustering to evaluate students' performance based on their examination results (the examination grades from College of Computer Science and Technology, Huaqiao University for students enrolled in year 2014). Based on the experimental results from 2D and 3D clustering for evaluating students' performance, the educators can better understand the students' performance so as to build a pedagogical basis for decisions. Students can also receive some recommendations from the mining results about their performance.
- Subject
- teaching; data mining; educational institutions; pattern clustering; educational administrative data processing
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1428849
- Identifier
- uon:38661
- Identifier
- ISSN:2051-3305
- Rights
- © This is an open access article published by the IET under the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/)
- Language
- eng
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