Educational data mining: A review of the state of the art

IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics Part C: Applications and Reviews

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 601-618

  Romero, Cristbal ^a   Ventura, Sebastin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CÓRDOBA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Data mining (DM); educational data mining (EDM); educational systems; knowledge discovery

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL APPROACH; EDUCATIONAL CONTEXT; EDUCATIONAL DATA MINING; EDUCATIONAL ENVIRONMENT; EDUCATIONAL SYSTEMS; INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH; KNOWLEDGE DISCOVERY; STATE OF THE ART;

DATA MINING;

EDUCATION;

EID: 77958153220     PISSN: 10946977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSMCC.2010.2053532     Document Type: Review

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