Discovering the Academic Situation of Students by Relationship Mining

While the data mining in education field gained more and more popularity in recent years, there have many research endeavors to find association rules in students' academic situation. The current methods normally apply traditional association rules mining technique to identify those rules. However, traditional association rules mining technique can not identify difference between different types of students' academic situation. To solve this problems, we applied a novel contrast target rules mining method in this paper. Real world data set from Computer Science department of a university of China, the empirical results show the difference characteristics of different types of students in their academic situation.