Educational Data Mining (EDM) is one of the emerging fields in the pedagogy and andragogy paradigm. EDM concerns the techniques through which research data come from the educational domain. EDM is a promising discipline which has an imperative impact on predicting students' academic performance. It includes the transformation of existing, and the innovation of new approaches derived from multidisciplinary spheres of influence such as statistics, machine learning, psychometrics, scientific computing, etc.

An archetype that is covered in this book is that of learning by example. The...