MINING EDUCATIONAL DATA

TO
ANALYZE STUDENTS PERFORMANCE

BATCH NO: 04
J.V.MOUNICA

311129210019

N.LAVANYA

311129210036

V.RAMAKRISHNA 311129210054
Y.MOUNICA YADAV - 311129210056

GUIDED BY,
Ms. D.PADMAJA
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
DEPARTMENT OF CSE

INDEX
1. INTRODUCTION
1.1 PURPOSE OF THE SYSTEM
1.2 SCOPE OF THE SYSTEM
1.3 OBJECTIVES
1.4 DEFINITIONS AND ABBREVATIONS
1.5 REFERENCES
2. CURRENT SYSTEM
3. PROPOSED SYSTEM
3.1 OVERVIEW
3.2 FUNCTIONAL REQUIREMENTS
3.3 NON FUNCTIONAL REQUIREMENTS
3.3.1 INTERFACE
3.3.2 EFFICIENCY
3.3.3 FLEXIBILITY
3.3.4 RELIABILITY

1. INTRODUCTION

1.1) PURPOSE OF THE SYSTEM:

The main aim of this system is to analyze the students data and
predict the performance at the end of the semester.
1.2) SCOPE OF THE SYSTEM:
To provide quality education to the students in higher
educational institutes.
1.3) OBJECTIVES:
To collect the data from students management
system.
To analyze the data using classification like ID3
algorithm.
To predict the performance of the students
based on the data.
To provide quality education to the institutions.

1.4) DEFINITIONS AND ABBREVATIONS :

Data mining: It is defined as extracting the

information/ knowledge from the huge set of data

Educational data mining: It is defined as a

process of discovering knowledge from data
origination from educational environment.

Classification: is the task of generalizing known

structure to apply to new data.

ID3 Algorithm: ID3 (Iterative Dichotomiser 3) is

an algorithm used to generate a decision tree from a
dataset.

Entropy: Entropy H(S) is a measure of the

amount of uncertainty in the (data) set S (i.e. entropy
characterizes the (data) set S).

Information gain: Information gain IG(A) is the

measure of the difference in entropy from before to
after the set S is split on an attribute A. n other
words, how much uncertainty in S was reduced after
splitting set S on attribute A.

1.5) REFERENCES:
i)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decision_tree_learning
ii) Mining Educational Data to Analyze Students
Performance (IJACSA) International Journal of
Advanced Computer Science and Applications, Vol. 2,
No. 6, 2011.
2) CURRENT SYSTEM:
In the existing system the student performance is
assessed upon various parameters like CGPA,
attendance, mid marks individually. All these
parameters are being assessed manually. There is no
common single application which is analyzing the
above parameters thereby leading to increase in the
work of the user.

3. PROPOSED SYSTEM

3.1) OVERVIEW:
In the proposed system, various parameters like mid
marks, previous semester marks, attendance ,
seminar performance are taken into consideration
and would be developed into a single application to
analyze the performance.
The classification task is used on student database to
predict the students division on the basis of previous
database. There are many approaches that are used
for data classification; the decision tree method is
used here.
This study will help the students and the teachers to
improve the division of the student. This study will
also work to identify those students who need special
attention to reduce fail ratio and taking appropriate
action for the next semester examination

3.2) FUNCTIONAL REQUIREMENTS:

The functional requirements describe the core
functionality of the application. This section includes
the data and functional process requirements.
The main function of this system is to collect data like
attendance, mid marks, previous year marks, seminar
performance etc. from student management system.
It analyzes the data and predicts the performance of
the student at the end semester.

3.3) NON-FUNCTIONAL REQUIREMENTS:

Interface:
The System has a very user-friendly interface. Thus
the users will feel very easy to work on it. The
software provides accuracy along with a pleasant
interface. Make the present manual system more
interactive, speedy and user friendly.
Efficiency:
This involves accuracy, timeliness and
comprehensiveness to the system output
Flexibility:
The system should be modifiable depending on the
changing needs of the user. Such modifications
should not entail extensive reconstructing or
recreation of software. It should also be portable to
different computer systems.
Reliability:
Reliability of this system can be able to process work
correctly and completely without being aborted.

4) CONCLUSION:
This system will help the students and teachers to
prove the division of the student and it also used to
identify those students who need special attention to
reduce fail ration and taking appropriate action for
the next semester examination.