Title
An Analysis of Degree Curricula through Mining Student Records
Abstract
Higher Education Institutions store a sizable amount of data, including student records and the structure of a degree curriculum. This paper focuses on the problem of identifying how closely students follow the recommended order of the courses in a degree curriculum, and to what extent their performance is affected by the order they actually adopt. It addresses this problem by applying techniques to mine frequent itemsets to student records. The paper illustrates the application of the techniques for a case study involving over 60,000 student records in two undergraduate degrees at a Brazilian University.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.1109/ICALT.2017.54
2017 IEEE 17th International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies (ICALT)
Keywords
Field
DocType
degree curriculum structure,academic analytics,frequent itemsets
Data science,Informatics,World Wide Web,Computer science,Visualization,Curriculum,Higher education
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
2161-3761
978-1-5386-3871-2
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.36
8
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Vinicius Gottin111.71
Haydee Jimenez210.70
Anna Carolina Finamore310.36
Marco A. Casanova41007979.09
Antonio L. Furtado5704917.22
Bernardo Pereira Nunes618530.96