Evidence of Students’ Academic Performance at the Federal College of Education Asaba Nigeria: Mining Education Data

One main objective of higher education is to provide quality education to its students. One way to achieve the highest level of quality in the higher education system is by discovering knowledge for prediction regarding enrolment of students in a particular course, alienation of traditional classroom teaching model, detection of unfair means used in online examination, detection of abnormal values in the result sheets of the students, and prediction about students’ performance. The knowledge is hidden among the educational data set and is extractable through data mining techniques. The present paper is designed to justify the capabilities of data mining techniques in the context of higher education by offering a data mining model for the higher education system in the university. In this research, the classification task is used to evaluate student’s performance, and as many approaches are used for data classification, the decision tree method is used here. By this, we extract data that describes students’ summative performance at semester’s end, helps to identify the dropouts and students who need special attention, and allows the teacher to provide appropriate advising/counseling

Forging a learner-centric blended-learning framework via an adaptive content-based architecture

The covid-19 pandemic was reported with significant negative impact on global education with shocks that disrupted the learning processes via the closure of traditional classrooms/schools from 2020 to March 2022. These effects have continued to ripple across even with advances in media literacy. The Nigerian frontier has also witnessed a paradigm shift in the adoption/integration of the information and communication tech as tools for both digital revolution and advancement of alternative education delivery. Today’s education which aspires for growth and progressive development is assured of positive changes if priority for educational values and ICT is harnessed. Past educational theories seem not to cope with the ever-changing, information society. Nigeria must develop strategies to address education reforms with frameworks to bridge these gaps vid post covid-19 era. Our study implements a hybrid a(synchronous) learning framework for Nigerian Tertiary education. Result shows improved learner cognition, engaged qualitative learning, and a learning scenario that ensures a power shift in the educational structure that will further equip learners to become knowledge producer, help teachers to emancipate students academically, in a framework that measures quality of engaged student’s learnin