Educational data mining is an emerging trend,
concerned with developing techniques for exploring, and
analyzing the huge data that come from the educational
context. EDM is poised to leverage an enormous amount of
research from data mining community and apply that research
to educational problems in learning, cognition and assessment.
In recent years, Educational data mining has proven to be
more successful at many of these educational statistics
problems due to enormous computing power and data mining
algorithms.
This paper surveys the history and applications of
data mining techniques in the educational field. The objective
is to introduce data mining to traditional educational system,
web-based educational system, intelligent tutoring system, and
e-learning. This paper describes how to apply the main data
mining techniques such as prediction, classification,
relationship mining, clustering, and social area networking to
educational data.