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Data mining is the process of extracting useful information from a huge amount of data. One of the most common applications of data mining is the use of different algorithms and tools to estimate future events based on previous experiences. In this context, many researchers have been using data mining techniques to support and solve challenges in higher education. There are many challenges facing this level of education, one of which is helping students to choose the right course to improve their success rate. An early prediction of students’ grades may help to solve this problem and improve students’ performance, selection of courses, success rate and retention. In this paper we use different classification techniques in order to build a performance prediction model, which is based on previous students’ academic records. The model can be easily integrated into a recommender system that can help students in their course selection, based on their and other graduated students’ grades. Our model uses two of the most recognised decision tree classification algorithms: ID3 and J48. The advantages of such a system have been presented along with a comparison in performance between the two algorithms.
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Al-Saleem, M., Al-Kathiry, N., Al-Osimi, S., Badr, G. (2015). Mining Educational Data to Predict Students’ Academic Performance. In: Perner, P. (eds) Machine Learning and Data Mining in Pattern Recognition. MLDM 2015. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9166. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-21024-7_28
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