ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

I sincerely owe gratitude to all the persons who helped and guided me in
carrying out this technical seminar. I would like to thank them all.

I owe my profound gratitude to my guide Mr. Gurudev.s.hiremath, Assistant professor, Dept.

of CSE, for his valuable guidance, regular source of encouragement and assistance for the
technical seminar.

I would like to express my immense gratitude to seminar coordinator Mr. Chethan L

S, Asst. professor Department of CS&E, for his help and encouragement.

First of all I would like to express my immense gratitude to Mr. Vinay S, Head of the
department of CS&E, for his help and encouragement.

I express my sincere gratitude to Dr. Ashok kumar, principal, PESITM, for giving me this
opportunity to enrich my knowledge. I am thank full to all the faculty members and the lab
staff of Department of Computer Science & engineering, PESITM for their constant support.

I would like to thank my parents and friends for their moral support.

Vaibhavi A T S
 ABSTRACT
Educational data mining concerns of developing methods to discover hidden patterns from
educational data. The quality of data mining techniques depends on the collected data and
features. In this paper, we proposed a new student performance model with a new category of
features, which called behavioral features. This type of features is related to the learner
interactivity with e-learning system. We collect the data from an e-Learning system called
Kalboard 360 using Experience API web service (XAPI). After that, we use some data
mining techniques such as Artificial Neural Network, Naïve Bayesian, and Decision Tree
classifiers to evaluate the impact of such features on student’s academic performance. The
results reveal that there is a strong relationship between learner behaviors and its academic
achievement. Results with different classification methods using behavioral features achieved
up to 29% improvement in the classification accuracy compared to the same data set when
removing such features.
 CONTENTS
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1. Introduction
1
1.1.Methods of image processing 2

1.1.1 Analog Image Processing 2

1.1.2 Digital Image Processing 2

1.2 Mining student data to analyze learning behavior 5

2. Literature review 6

2.1 Path Analytic Study 6

2.1.1 Students’ Achievement Model 6
2.1.2 Independent Variables in the Model 7
2.1.3 Dependent Variables in the Model 7
2.2 Academic Performance of Students with ADHD 8
2.3 Scaling EM (Expectation-Maximization) Clustering to Large Databases 9
2.3.1 Classic (Vanilla) EM Algorithm 9
2.4 Summary 10
3. System design and implementation 11
3.1 Artificial neural networks 13
3.2 Decision Trees 13
3.3 Data mining technique 14
3.4 Data collection and preprocessing 15
3.5 E-learning 17
3.6 Classification Algorithms for Students College Enrollment Approval 18
3.7 Experimental design methodology 19
3.8 Classification 19
3.9 Classifier performance measures 21
3.10 Classifiers algorithms performance 23
4. Experiments and results 25
5. Conclusion and feature work 29

Reference 30
 LIST OF FIGURES

Figure2.1: Path Model for Students’ Academic Achievement 08

Figure3.1: Architectural diagram of the student performance 12
Figure3.8. Block diagram of experiment components used for measuring classifiers 19
Figure3.10. Classifiers Algorithms Performance results for Computer College. 24