Abstract:
Educational Data Mining becomes one of the challenging
new research fields where data mining methods and tools could help
universities in taking timely and data analysis based management
decisions, thus contributing to gaining competitive advantages in their
successful policy introduction. This paper presents the research activities
performed for the implementation of a data mining project initiated in
one of the most prestigious Bulgarian universities. The project main goal
is to reveal the high potential of data mining applications for university
management, referring to the optimal usage of data mining methods and
techniques to deeply analyze the collected historical data. That will lead
to better understanding the student behavior and building well structured
educational process that meets the university policy and supports the
management decision making process.