ACHIEVEMENT ANALYSIS OF A DATASET OF DISTANCE EDUCATION SAMPLES WITH APRIORI ALGORITHM

Authors : Tolga Demirhan, Ilker Hacioglu

Pages : 19-29

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Publication Date : 2017-12-09

Article Type : Research Paper

Abstract :The purpose of this study is to analyze the academic success of distance education students using the apriori algorithm which is one of the association rule extraction algorithms in data mining. The students enrolled in Trakya University, Tunca Vocational High School (Distance Education) in 2016-2017 education year constitute the data set of the study. A questionnaire with 51 items, participation in which was on a voluntary basis, was used for the creation of the data set. On the data set, Apriori experiments were carried out separately for the attributes with course grades and the obtained rules were interpreted.
Keywords : Apriori, weka, success analysis, data mining, distance education