The new and rapidly growing field of educational data mining is using the chaff from data collected through normal school activities to explore learning in more detail than ever before ...

Consider supporting our stories and becoming a member today. One indisputable effect of introducing technology into education has been the generation of unprecedented amounts of electronic data on ...

Supported by massive educational data and advanced technologies such as data mining, we can deeply understand and optimize students’ learning trajectories, goals, and competencies. This paper ...

In one recent data-mining analysis, researchers from an education technology company ... which develop algorithms to tailor computer instruction to each student’s needs. The company believes ...

Four years of research led to a specific decision tree data mining algorithm yielding best results. Results obtained from the BC database were excellent, revealing $4.7 billion (US) in high ...

represented in the data fed to a data-mining algorithm, the algorithm can infer race and use race indirectly to make an ultimate decision. Here’s a simple example of the way algorithms can ...

One indisputable effect of introducing technology into education has been the generation of unprecedented amounts of electronic data on America’s public school students — their attendance, their test ...