A Decision Tree Approach for Predicting Student Grades in Research Project using Weka
Journal Title: International Journal of Advanced Computer Science & Applications - Year 2019, Vol 10, Issue 7
Abstract
Data mining in education is an emerging multidiscipline research field especially with the upsurge of new technologies used in educational systems that led to the storage of massive student data. This study used classification, a data mining process, in evaluating computer engineering student’s data to identify students who need academic counseling in the subject. There were five attributes considered in building the classification model. The decision tree was chosen as the classifier for the model. The accuracy of the decision tree algorithms, Random Tree, RepTree and J48, were compared using cross-validation wherein Random Tree returned the highest accuracy of 75.188%. Waikato Environment for Knowledge Analysis (WEKA) data mining tool was used in generating the classification model. The classification rules extracted from the decision tree was used in the algorithm of the Research Project Grade Predictor application which was developed using Visual C#. The application will help research instructors or advisers to easily identify students who need more attention because they are predicted to have low grades.
Authors and Affiliations
Ertie C. Abana
Keywords
Related Articles
- EP ID EP611295
- DOI 10.14569/IJACSA.2019.0100739
- Views 83
- Downloads 0
Adapted Speed Mechanism for Collision Avoidance in Vehicular Ad hoc Networks Environment
The disrespect of the safety distance between vehicles is the cause of several road accidents. This distance cannot certainly be estimated at random because of some physical rules to be calculated. The more speed gets hi...
Albanian Sign Language (AlbSL) Number Recognition from Both Hand’s Gestures Acquired by Kinect Sensors
Albanian Sign Language (AlbSL) is relatively new and until now there doesn’t exist a system that is able to recognize Albanian signs by using natural user interfaces (NUI). The aim of this paper is to present a real-time...
Development of A Clinically-Oriented Expert System for Differentiating Melanocytic from Non-melanocytic Skin Lesions
Differentiating melanocytic from non-melanocytic (MnM) skin lesions is the first and important step required by clinical experts to automatically diagnosis pigmented skin lesions (PSLs). In this paper, a new clinically-o...
Characterizations of Flexible Wearable Antenna based on Rubber Substrate
Modern ages have observed excessive attention from both scientific and academic communities in the field of flexible electronic based systems. Most progressive flexible electronic systems require incorporating the flexib...
Distributed Group Key Management with Cluster based Communication for Dynamic Peer Groups
Secure group communication is an increasingly popular research area having received much attention in recent years. Group key management is a fundamental building block for secure group communication systems. This paper...