ANALYSIS ON FACTORS AFFECTING STUDENT ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE USING DATA MINING TECHNIQUES

Information Science & Engineering

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A student’s academic performance is influenced by several factors. Studies have been done in the educational data mining area to search out what are all the factors that have an effect on a student’s academic performance. There are many factors which may have an effect on a student’s scholastic achievement but our study aims to search out the major factors that may have an effect on a student’s academic performance. In our study we have taken a normal student, who can be a primary school student or an undergraduate student. Predicting student’s performance becomes tougher attributable to the big volume of information in academic databases. More number of students, large amount of data to be stored and more the responsibility of the institutions to shape the student’s career creatively. Teacher’s responsibility increases, they must be aware of the student’s activities and behaviour. To make the jobs of a teacher easy, we have identified few factors/attributes affecting student’s academic performance the most. Our study might bring edges and impacts to students, educators/lecturers and tutorial establishments. The factors which we have researched in our study are – student’s background, financial status of student’s family, college/school surrounding, class environment, faculty support, parent’s support, family stress, friends circle.

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