Extracting Rules from Event Data for Study Planning
This work addresses study planning for higher education students, but it is incremental as it applies existing methods to a specific dataset.
The study tackled the problem of analyzing student study paths from campus event data to provide guidance for study planning, using process and data mining with decision trees to generate rules, and found that course sequence features effectively explain academic performance measures at RWTH Aachen University.
In this study, we examine how event data from campus management systems can be used to analyze the study paths of higher education students. The main goal is to offer valuable guidance for their study planning. We employ process and data mining techniques to explore the impact of sequences of taken courses on academic success. Through the use of decision tree models, we generate data-driven recommendations in the form of rules for study planning and compare them to the recommended study plan. The evaluation focuses on RWTH Aachen University computer science bachelor program students and demonstrates that the proposed course sequence features effectively explain academic performance measures. Furthermore, the findings suggest avenues for developing more adaptable study plans.