Educational data mining (EDM) is a new growing research area and the essence of data mining concepts are used
in the educational field for the purpose of extracting useful information on the behaviors of students in the learning process. In
this EDM, feature selection is to be made for the generation of subset of candidate variables. As the feature selection influences
the predictive accuracy of any performance model, it is essential to study elaborately the effectiveness of student performance
model in connection with feature selection techniques. In this connection, the present study is devoted not only to investigate
the most relevant subset features with minimum cardinality for achieving high predictive performance by adopting various
filtered feature selection techniques in data mining but also to evaluate the goodness of subsets with different cardinalities and
the quality of six filtered feature selection algorithms in terms of F-measure value and Receiver Operating Characteristics (ROC)
value, generated by the NaïveBayes algorithm as base-line classifier method. The comparative study carried out by us on six
filter feature section algorithms reveals the best method, as well as optimal dimensionality of the feature subset. Benchmarking
of filter feature selection method is subsequently carried out by deploying different classifier models. The result of the present
study effectively supports the well known fact of increase in the predictive accuracy with the existence of minimum number of
features. The expected outcomes show a reduction in computational time and constructional cost in both training and
classification phases of the student performance model.