Identifying Influence Factors on Students Success by Subgroup Discovery
Florian Lemmerich, Marianus Ifland, Frank Puppe · RWTH Publications (RWTH Aachen) · 2011
The identification of influence factors on students ’ success rate is of high interest. Especially knowledge about factors, which can be determined before the start of a student’s degree program, is important, since most drop-outs occur in the very first semesters. In this paper we show, how the data mining technique of subgroup discovery can be utilized to identify such influence factors on the overall success of students. Additionally, we also discuss several interesting measures for this purpose..