A Study on Feature Selection Techniques in Educational Data Mining

Details A Study on Feature Selection Techniques in Educational Data Mining A Study on Feature Selection Techniques in Educational Data Mining

2009-12-19

arxiv.org/abs/0912.3924v1

Journal of Computing, Volume 1, Issue 1, pp 7-11, December 2009

Computer Science

Databases

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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 NaiveBayes 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.

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