Analysis of students' database design skills in capstone projects

Abstract

In this paper, we use Association rule learning to analyze the relationship between students' performance in database courses and their performance of database design in the capstone projects. Students need to design and implement databases to store related data in their capstone projects. Some of these databases are well designed, however, some of the designs have common problems such as redundant information, incorrect relationships between tables, etc. Therefore, we want to use Association rules to determine if database related courses affect the quality of students' database design performance in the capstone projects. The interesting strong rules found will be shared with instructors for these courses as teaching references.