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Introduction to the special section on educational data mining
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Abstract
Educational Data Mining (EDM) is an emerging multidisciplinary research area, in which methods and techniques for exploring data originating from various educational information systems have been developed. EDM is both a learning science, as well as a rich application area for data mining, due to the growing availability of educational data. EDM contributes to the study of how students learn, and the settings in which they learn. It enables data-driven decision making for improving the current educational practice and learning material. We present a brief overview of EDM and introduce four selected EDM papers representing a crosscut of different application areas for data mining in education.
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English
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SIGKDD explorations
Publication
2011
ISSN
1931-0145
1931-0153
DOI
10.1145/2207243.2207245
Volume/pages
13 :2 (2011) , p. 3-6
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UAntwerpen
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