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A survey on educational process mining
Author(s) -
Bogarín Alejandro,
Cerezo Rebeca,
Romero Cristóbal
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
wiley interdisciplinary reviews: data mining and knowledge discovery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.506
H-Index - 47
eISSN - 1942-4795
pISSN - 1942-4787
DOI - 10.1002/widm.1230
Subject(s) - process (computing) , process mining , computer science , data science , field (mathematics) , educational data mining , representation (politics) , domain (mathematical analysis) , government (linguistics) , data mining , business process discovery , work (physics) , knowledge management , work in process , business process , engineering , business process modeling , operations management , operating system , mechanical engineering , mathematical analysis , linguistics , philosophy , mathematics , politics , law , political science , pure mathematics
Educational process mining (EPM) is an emerging field in educational data mining (EDM) aiming to make unexpressed knowledge explicit and to facilitate better understanding of the educational process. EPM uses log data gathered specifically from educational environments in order to discover, analyze, and provide a visual representation of the complete educational process. This paper introduces EPM and elaborates on some of the potential of this technology in the educational domain. It also describes some other relevant, related areas such as intentional mining, sequential pattern mining and graph mining. It highlights the components of an EPM framework and it describes the different challenges when handling event logs and other generic issues. It describes the data, tools, techniques and models used in EPM. In addition, the main work in this area is described and grouped by educational application domains. WIREs Data Mining Knowl Discov 2018, 8:e1230. doi: 10.1002/widm.1230 This article is categorized under: Application Areas > Business and Industry Application Areas > Education and Learning Application Areas > Government and Public Sector