Vol. 3, Issue 6, Part H (2017)

Abstract
Educational data mining is an emerging discipline that focuses on applying data mining tools and techniques to educationally related data. The data mining technology can discover the hidden patterns, associations, and anomalies from educational data. This knowledge can improve the decision making processes in higher educational systems. Data mining is considered as the most suited technology appropriate in giving additional insight into the lecturer, student, alumni, manager, and other educational staff behavior and acting as an active automated assistant in helping them for making better decisions on their educational activities. This paper tries to take review of work done so far in this area of educational data mining and one of the applications of data mining called “Prediction”