Web usage mining for predicting final marks of students that use Moodle courses

Computer Applications in Engineering Education

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 135-146

  Romero, Cristobal ^a   Espejo, Pedro G ^a   Zafra, Amelia ^a   Romero, Jose Raul ^a   Ventura, Sebastian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CÓRDOBA   (Spain)

Author keywords

classifying students; educational data mining; learning management systems; predicting marks

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION METHODS; CLASSIFIER MODELS; COURSEWARE; DATA MINING TECHNIQUES; DISCRETIZATIONS; E-LEARNING SYSTEMS; EDUCATIONAL DATA MINING; EDUCATIONAL ENVIRONMENT; FUZZY RULE INDUCTION; LEARNING MANAGEMENT SYSTEM; NUMERICAL DATA; PRE-PROCESSING; PREDICTING MARKS; UNIVERSITY STUDENTS; USAGE DATA; WEB USAGE MINING;

DECISION MAKING; DECISION TREES; E-LEARNING; FORECASTING; STUDENTS;

DATA MINING;

EID: 84872707825     PISSN: 10613773     EISSN: 10990542     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cae.20456     Document Type: Article

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