Effective educational process: A data-mining approach

VINE

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 502-515

  Ranjan, Jayanthi ^a   Malik, Kamna ^a  

^a Institute of Management Technology   (India)

Author keywords

Change management; Data handling; Educational administrative data processing

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL SKILLS; CHANGE MANAGEMENT; DATA-MINING TECHNIQUES; DATA-MINING TOOLS; DESIGN/METHODOLOGY/APPROACH; DOMAIN KNOWLEDGE; EDUCATIONAL PROCESS; EXPLICIT KNOWLEDGE;

ADMINISTRATIVE DATA PROCESSING; DATA HANDLING; DATA MINING; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS;

EDUCATION;

EID: 36248941862     PISSN: 03055728     EISSN: 14741032     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/03055720710838551     Document Type: Article

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