Mining academic data to improve college student retention: An open source perspective

ACM International Conference Proceeding Series

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 139-142

  Lauría, Eitel J M ^a   Baron, Joshua D ^a   Devireddy, Mallika ^a   Sundararaju, Venniraiselvi ^a   Jayaprakash, Sandeep M ^a  

^a MARIST COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

course management systems; data mining; learning analytics; open source

Indexed keywords

COLLEGE STUDENTS; COURSE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS; DATA MINING ALGORITHM; DATA MINING METHODS; LEARNING ANALYTICS; METHODOLOGICAL FRAMEWORKS; MODEL DEVELOPMENT; OPEN SOURCES; STUDENT PERFORMANCE;

ALGORITHMS; DATA MINING; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; OPEN SYSTEMS;

STUDENTS;

EID: 84864664739     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2330601.2330637     Document Type: Conference Paper

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