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Academic ranking is a public topic, such as for universities, colleges, or departments, which has significant educational, administrative and social effects. Popular ranking systems include the US News & World Report (USNWR), the Academic…
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In this paper, we describe data mining techniques used to extract frequent learning pathways from a large educational dataset. These pathways were extracted as a directed graph that encoded student learning processes. Our dataset contains…
Working with big data using data mining tools is rapidly becoming a trend in education industry. The combination of the current capacity to collect, store, manage and process data in a timely manner, and data from online educational…
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