Multidimensional Analysis of Psychological Factors affecting Students Academic Performance

Academic performance of any individual is dependent upon numerous aspects regarding the day to day life of the individual under consideration. Academic performance is measured in terms of the grade point average or GPA as it is called. Grade point average is dependent not only on the faculty but also on various psychological parameters including the study habits, social anxiety and allied. In this study, a detail analysis of numerous psychological factors impacting the grade point was carried and based upon various psychological factors the performance for the student in forth coming examination was forecasted

Performance Analysis and Prediction in Educational Data Mining: A Research Travelogue

In this era of computerization, education has also revamped itself and is not limited to old lecture method. The regular quest is on to find out new ways to make it more effective and efficient for students. Nowadays, lots of data is collected in educational databases, but it remains unutilized. In order to get required benefits from such a big data, powerful tools are required. Data mining is an emerging powerful tool for analysis and prediction. It is successfully applied in the area of fraud detection, advertising, marketing, loan assessment and prediction. But, it is in nascent stage in the field of education. Considerable amount of work is done in this direction, but still there are many untouched areas. Moreover, there is no unified approach among these researches. This paper presents a comprehensive survey, a travelogue (2002-2014) towards educational data mining and its scope in future.Comment: 9 page