Data Mining Tool for Academic Data Exploitation : Webtool description and usage

Abstract

This document is related to the Data Mining Tools for Academic Data Exploitation, and collects the overall architecture of the SPEET generated WEB-tool, the user manual for the use of WEB-tool and the overview of the output to establish clustering, dropout, and their dependency on students' characteristics. The ultimate goal of SPEET project is the development of an WEB-based tool to disseminate the main intellectual output in form of user-friendly and easily accessible software tool. The WEB-tool is accessible from speet.uab.cat is intended to make accessible by other faculties and schools outside of the SPEET consortium the possibility to make data analysis on students based on the proprietary data after these are organized accordingly. The WEB-tool developed within SPEET project represent a product that will remain after the end of the project to let European Universities accessing and comparing their performance metrics. Furthermore, the WEB-tool is a free-of-charge tool that contains the analyses of the SPEET institutions and another engineering institution can autonomously compare with the pre-existing ones to extract comparative analyses, or simply to investigate anomalous dropout situations.