Predictive and statistical analyses for academic advisory support

11/07/2015
by   Mohammed Al-Sarem, et al.
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The ability to recognize weakness of students and solving any problem may confront them in timely fashion is always a target of all educational institutions. This study was designed to explore how can predictive and statistical analysis support the academic work of adviser mainly in analysis progress of students . The sample consisted of a total of 249 undergraduate students: 46 and t-test were conducted to analysis if there was different behavior in registering courses. Predictive data mining is used for support adviser in decision making. Several classification techniques with 10-fold Cross validation were applied. Among of them, C 4.5 constitutes the best agreement among the finding results.

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