Mining Students' Data for Prediction Performance

A country's growth is strongly measured by quality of its education system. Education sector, across the globe has witnessed sea change in its functioning. Today it is recognized as an industry and like any other industry it is facing challenges, the major challenges of higher education being decrease in students' success rate and their leaving a course without completion. An early prediction of students' failure may help the management provide timely counseling as well coaching to increase success rate and student retention. We use different classification techniques to build performance prediction model based on students' social integration, academic integration, and various emotional skills which have not been considered so far. Two algorithms J48 (Implementation of C4.5) and Random Tree have been applied to the records of MCA students of colleges affiliated to Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University to predict third semester performance. Random Tree is found to be more accurate in predicting performance than J48 algorithm.