Analysis and Mining of Educational Data for Predicting the Performance of Students

In recent, higher education has increased rapidly. Many new institutions, colleges and universities are being established by both the private and government sectors for the growth of education and welfare of the students. Where a teacher explains the material and students understand and learn the lesson. There is no absolute scale for measuring knowledge but examination score is one scale which shows the performance indicator of students. This paper describes the use of data mining techniques to improve the efficiency of academic performance in the educational institutions. In this paper, we present a real-world experiment conducted in VBS Purvanchal University, Jaunpur, India. This method helps to identify the students who need special advising or counseling by the teacher which gives high quality of education.