USING DECISION TREE CLASSIFIER FOR ANALYZING STUDENTS’ ACTIVITIES

Journal Title: Journal of Information Technology and Application (JITA) - Year 2013, Vol 3, Issue 2

Abstract

In this paper students’ activities data analysis in the course Introduction to programming at Faculty of Electrical Engineering in East Sarajevo is performed. Using the data that are stored in the Moodle database combined with manually collected data, the model was developed to predict students’ performance in successfully passing the fi nal exam. The goal was to identify variables that could help teachers in predicting students’ performance and making specifi c recommendations for improving individual activities that could directly infl uence fi nal exam successful passing. The model was created using decision tree classifi er and experiments were performed using the WEKA data mining tool. The effect of input attributes on the model performances was analyzed and applying appropriate techniques a higher accuracy of the generated model was achieved.

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Snježana Milinković, Mirjana Maksimović

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  • EP ID EP244510
  • DOI 10.7251/JIT1302087M
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Snježana Milinković, Mirjana Maksimović (2013). USING DECISION TREE CLASSIFIER FOR ANALYZING STUDENTS’ ACTIVITIES. Journal of Information Technology and Application (JITA), 3(2), 87-95. https://europub.co.uk/articles/-A-244510